The natural history of a miltogrammine fly, Miltogramma rectangularis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 208-219

  Alcock, John ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; BROOD PARASITISM; FLY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITE;

AUSTRALIA;

AMEGILLA DAWSONI; DIPTERA; MILTOGRAMMA RECTANGULARIS; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 0034926001     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Alcock, J. 1974. The behavior of Philanthus crabroniformis Smith (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Zoology 173:233-246.
2. Alcock, J. 1996a. Provisional rejection of three alternative hypotheses on the maintenance of a size dichotomy in Dawson's burrowing bees (Amegilla dawsoni) (Apidae, Anthophorini). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 39:181-188.
3. Alcock, J. 1996b. The relation between body size, fighting, and mating success in Dawson's burrowing bee, Amegilla dawsoni (Apidae, Apinae, Anthophorini). Journal of Zoology 239:663-674.
4. Alcock, J. 1999. The nesting behavior of Dawson's burrowing bee, Amegilla dawsoni (Hymenoptera: Anthophorini), and the production of offspring of different sizes. Journal of Insect Behavior 12:363-384.
5. Alcock, J., C. E. Jones, and S. L. Buchmann. 1977. Male mating strategies in the bee Centris pallida Fox (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). American Naturalist 111:145-155.
6. Cardale, J. 1968. Parasites and other organisms associated with nests of Amegilla Friese (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7:29-34.
7. Clark, C. W., and R. Dukas. 1994. Balancing foraging and antipredator demands: an advantage of sociality. American Naturalist 144:542-548.
8. Danforth, D. N., and P. K. Visscher. 1993. Dynamics of a host-cleptoparasite relationship: Holcopasites ruthae as a parasite of Calliopsis pugionis (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae, Andrenidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86:833-840.
9. Evans, H. E., and M. J. West Eberhard. 1970. The Wasps. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
10. Houston, T. F. 1991. Ecology and behaviour of the bee Amegilla (Asaropoda) dawsoni (Rayment) with notes on a related species (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 15:91-109.
11. McCorquodale, D. B. 1986. Digger wasp (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) provisioning flights as a defense against a nest parasite, Senotainia trilineata (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 64:1620-1627.
12. Rosenheim, J. A. 1987. Nesting behavior and bionomics of a solitary ground-nesting wasp, Ammophila dysmica (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae): influence of parasite pressure. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 80:739-749.
13. Rosenheim, J. A. 1990. Density-dependent parasitism and the evolution of aggregated nesting in the solitary Hymenoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 83:277-286.
14. Spofford, M. G., and F. E. Kurczewski. 1985. Courtship and mating behavior of Phrosinella aurifacies Downes (Diptera, Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87:273-282.
15. Spofford, M. G., and F. E. Kurczewski. 1990. Comparative larvipositional behaviors and cleptoparasitic frequencies of Nearctic species of Miltogrammini (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Journal of Natural History 24:731-755.
16. Spofford, M. G., and F. E. Kurczewski. 1992. Counter-cleptoparasitic behaviors of species of Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) in response to Miltogrammini larviposition (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Journal of Natural History 26:993-1012.
17. Spofford, M. G., F. E. Kurczewski, and D. J. Peckham. 1986. Cleptoparasitization of Tachysphex terminatus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by three species of Miltogrammini (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 79:350-358.
18. Torchio, P. F., and V. J. Tepedino. 1980. Sex ratio, body size and seasonality in a solitary bee, Osmia lignaria propinqua Cresson (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Evolution 34:993-1003.
19. Visscher, P. K., and B. N. Danforth. 1993. Biology of Calliopsis pugionis (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae): Nesting, foraging and investment sex ratio. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86:822-832.
20. Wcislo, W. T. 1984. Gregarious nesting of a digger wasp as a selfish herd response to a parasitic fly (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae: Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 15:157-160.
21. Wcislo, W. T. 1996. Parasitism rates in relation to nest site in bees and wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of insect Behavior 9:643-656.
22. Wenner, A. M., and P. H. Wells. 1990. Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" Among Bees. Columbia University Press, New York.
23. Zhang, S. W., and G. A. Horridge. 1992. Pattern recognition in bees: size of regions in spatial layout. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 337:65-71.
24. Zhang, S. W., M. V. Srinivasan, and G. A. Horridge. 1992. Pattern recognition in honeybees: local and global analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 248:55-61.