Social and spatial organisation in colonies of a primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia revolutionalis (de Saussure) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Australian Journal of Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-24

  Robson, S K A ^a   Bean, K ^a   Hansen, J ^a   Norling, K ^a   Rowe, R J ^a   White, D ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caste; Division of labour; Eusociality; Polistinae

Indexed keywords

ROPALIDIA REVOLUTIONALIS;

EID: 0034143954     PISSN: 13266756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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