Colony cycle of a "temperate" hover wasp, Eustenogaster nigra, with special reference to overwintering of males in an enveloped nest together with virgin females (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Stenogastrinae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-54

  Saito, F ^a   Nguyen, L T P ^b   Kojima, J ^a,c  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES   (Viet Nam)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eustenogaster; Overwintering; Solitary colony; Stenogastrinae

Indexed keywords

COLONY; DORMANCY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LIFE CYCLE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; NESTING; OVERWINTERING; WASP;

EUSTENOGASTER; HYMENOPTERA; STENOGASTRINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 60149083822     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-008-1036-z     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Arévalo E., Zhu Y., Carpenter J.M. and Strassmann J.E. 2004. The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequence, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters. BMC Evol. Biol. 4: 8
2. Cameron S.A. 1986. Brood care by males of Polistes major (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 59: 183-185
3. Carpenter J.M. 1982. The phylogenetic relationships and natural classification of the Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). Syst. Entomol. 7: 11-38
4. Carpenter J.M. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships and the origin of social behavior in the Vespidae. In: The Social Biology of Wasps (Ross K.G. and Matthews R.W., Eds), Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, pp 7-32
5. Carpenter J.M. 2003. On "Molecular phylogeny of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) and the evolution of sociality in wasps". Am. Mus. Novit. 3389: 1-20
6. Carpenter J.M. and Kojima J. 1997. Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Nat. Hist. Bull. Ibaraki Univ. 1: 51-92
7. Gadagkar R. 1990. Belonogaster, Mischocyttarus, Parapolybia, and independent-founding Ropalidia. In: The Social Biology of Wasps (Ross K.G. and Matthews R.W., Eds), Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, pp 149-190
8. Gadagkar R. and Joshi N.V. 1984. Social organization in the Indian wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Z. Tierpsychol. 64: 15-32
9. Giannotti E. 2004. Male behavior in colonies of the social wasp Polistes lanio (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Sociobiology 43: 551-555
10. Hansell M. 1987. Elements of eusociality in colonies of Eustenogaster calyptodoma (Sakagami & Yoshikawa) (Stenogastrinae, Vespidae). Anim. Behav. 35: 131-141
11. Hines H.M., Hunt J.M., O'Connor T.K., Gillespie J.J. and Cameron S.A. 2007. Multigene phylogeny reveals eusociality evolved twice in vespid wasps. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 3295-3299
12. Hunt J.H. and Amdam G.V. 2005. Bivoltinism as an antecedent to eusociality in the paper wasp genus Polistes. Science 308: 264-267
13. Hunt J.H. and Nooman K.C. 1979. Larval feeding by male Polistes fucatus and Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insect. Soc. 26: 247-251
14. Jeanne R.L. 1972. Social biology of the neotropical wasp Mischocyttarus drewseni. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 144: 63-150
15. Kojima J. 1990. Immatures of hover wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Stenogastrinae). Jpn. J. Ent. 58: 506-522
16. Kojima J. 1993. Feeding of larvae by males of an Australian paper wasp, Ropalidia plebeiana Richards (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Jpn. J. Ent. 61: 213-215
17. Makino S. 1983. Larval feeding by Polistes biglumis males (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Kontyû 51: 487
18. Nguyen V.K., Nguyen H.T., Phan L.K. and Nguyen H.T. 2000. Bioclimatic Diagrams of Vietnam. Vietnam National University, Publishing House, Hanoi. 126pp
19. O'Donnell S. 1995. Division of labor in post-emergence colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes instabilis de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insect. Soc. 42: 17-29
20. O'Donnell S. 1999. The function of male dominance in the eusocial wasp, Mischocyttarus mastigophorus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Ethology 105: 273-282
21. Pickett K.M. and Wenzel J.W. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of the New World Polistes (hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) using morphology and molecules. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 77: 742-760
22. Pickett K.M., Carpenter J.M. and Wheeler W.C. 2006. Systematics of Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with a phylogenetic considerations of Hamilton's haplodiploidy hypothesis. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 43: 390-406
23. Reeve H. K. 1990. Polistes. In: The Social Biology of Wasps (Ross K.G. and Matthews R.W., Eds), Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, pp 99-138
24. Saito F. and Kojima J. 2007. A taxonomic revision of the hover wasp genus Eustenogaster van der Vecht (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Stenogastrinae). Zotaxa 1556: 1-30
25. Saito F., Nguyen L.T.P., Carpenter J.M. and Kojima J. 2006. A new Eustenogater species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Stenogastrinae), the first hover wasp known to overwinter on the nest. Am. Mus. Novit. 3534: 1-12
26. rd. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York. 999 pp
27. Turillazzi S. 1991. The Stenogastrinae. In: The Social Biology of Wasps (Ross K.G. and Matthews R.W., Eds), Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, pp 74-98
28. Turillazzi S. and Francescato E. 1990. Patrolling behaviour and related secretory structures in the males of some stenogastrine wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insect. Soc. 37: 146-157
29. Wenzel J.W. 1993. Application of the biogenetic law to behavioral ontogeny: a test using nest architecture in paper wasps. J. Evol. Biol. 6: 229-247
30. Wenzel J.W. and Carpenter J.M. 1994. Comparing methods: adaptive traits and tests of adaptation. In: Phylogenetics and Ecology, (Eggleton P. and Vane-Wright R., Eds), Academic Press, London, pp 79-101
31. West-Eberhard M.J. 1969. The social biology of polistine wasps. Misc. publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 140: 1-101
32. Yamane S. 1969. Preliminary observations on the life history of two polistine wasps, Polistes snelleni and P. biglumis in Sapporo, northern Japan. Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. Ser. VI Zool. 17: 78-105
33. Zhu Y., Landi M., Queller D.C., Turillazzi S. and Strassmann J.E. 2000. Polymorphic microsatellite loci for primitively eusocial Stenogastrine wasps. Mol. Ecol. 9: 2203-2205