Bionomics and sociological aspects of Euglossa fimbriata (Apidae, Euglossini)

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 525-538

  Augusto, S C ^a   Garofalo C A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Euglossa; Nesting behavior; Social evolution; Social structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; BROOD PARASITE; EUGLOSSA FIMBRIATA; FEMALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; EUGLOSSA; EUGLOSSINI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67649398935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol8-2kerr004     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Augusto SC and Garófalo CA (1994). Comportamento das Fêmeas nas Associações Formadas em Ninhos de Euglossa cordata (Hymenoptera; Apidae; Euglossini). In: Anais do I Encontro sobre Abelhas, Ribeirão Preto, 171-181.
2. Augusto SC and Garófalo CA (2004). Nesting biology and social structure of Euglossa (Euglossa) townsendi Cockerell (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini). Insectes Soc. 51: 400-409. (Pubitemid 40059292)
3. Augusto SC and Garófalo CA (2007). Nesting of Euglossa (Euglossa) melanotricha Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the ground of cerrado. Neotrop. Entomol. 36: 153-156. (Pubitemid 46597218)
4. Bridge C and Field J (2007). Queuing for dominance: gerontocracy and queue-jumping in the hover wasp Liostenogaster flavolineata. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 61: 1253-1259.
5. Cameron SA (2004). Phylogeny and biology of Neotropical orchid bees (Euglossini). Annu. Rev. Entomol. 49: 377-404. (Pubitemid 38192428)
6. Cameron SA and Ramírez S (2001). Nest architecture and nesting ecology of the orchid bee Eulaema meriana (Hymenoptera: Apinae: Euglossini). J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 74: 142-165.
7. Charnov EL (1978). Evolution of eusocial behavior: offspring choice or parental parasitism? J. Theor. Biol. 75: 451-465. (Pubitemid 9105412)
8. Dodson CH (1966). Ethology of some bees of the tribe Euglossini (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 39: 607-629.
9. Dressler RL (1982). Biology of orchid bees (Euglossini). Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 13: 373-394.
10. Eberhard WG (1988). Group nesting in two species of Euglossa bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 61: 406-411.
11. Field J (1992). Intraspecific parasitism as an alternative reproductive tactic in nest-building wasps and bees. Biol. Rev. 67: 79-126. (Pubitemid 23398740)
12. Garófalo CA (1985). Social structure of Euglossa cordata nests (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Entomol. Gen. 11: 77-83.
13. Garófalo CA (1992). Comportamento de nidificação e estrutura de ninhos de Euglossa cordata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Rev. Bras. Biol. 52: 187-198.
14. Garófalo CA and Rozen JG Jr (2001). Parasitic behavior of Exaerete smaragdina with descriptions of its mature oocyte and larval instars (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini). Am. Mus. Novitates 3349: 1-26.
15. Garófalo CA, Camilo E and Serrano JC (1993). Utilization of trap nest by Euglossini species (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Rev. Bras. Biol. 53: 177-187.
16. Garófalo CA, Camilo E, Augusto SC, Jesus BMV, et al. (1998). Nest structure and communal nesting in Euglossa (Glossura) annectans Dressler (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini). Rev. Bras. Zool. 15: 589-596.
17. Kukuk PF, Ward SA and Jozwiak A (1998). Mutualistic benefits generate an unequal distribution of risky activities among unrelated group members. Naturwissenschaften 85: 445-449. (Pubitemid 28457569)
18. Michener CD (1964). Reproductive efficiency in relation to colony size in hymenopterous societies. Insectes Soc. 11: 317-341.
19. Parra-H A, Ospina-Torres A and Ramírez S (2006). Euglossa natesi n. sp., a new species of orchid bee from the Chocó region of Colombia and Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Zootaxa 129: 29-36. (Pubitemid 44316215)
20. Pereira-Martins SR and Kerr WE (1991). Biologia de Eulaema nigrita. 3. Inferências evolutivas. Pap. Avuls. Zool. 37: 584-585.
21. Ramírez-Arriaga E, Cuadriello-Aguilar JI and Hernández EM (1996). Nest structure and parasite of Euglossa atroveneta Dressler (Apidae: Bombinae: Euglossini) at Unión Juárez, Chiapas, México. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 69: 144-152. (Pubitemid 27206531)
22. Rebêlo JMM (2001). História Natural das Euglossíneas. As abelhas das orquídeas. Lithograf Editora, São Luís.
23. Rebêlo JMM and Silva FS (1999). Distribution of Euglossini bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Maranhão State, Brazil. An. Soc. Entomol. Bras. 28: 389-401.
24. Reeve HK and Keller L (2001). Tests of reproductive-skew models in social insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 46: 347-385.
25. Roberts RB and Dodson CH (1967). Nesting biology of two communal bees, Euglossa imperialis and Euglossa ignita (Hymenoptera: Apidae) including description of larvae. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 60: 1007-1014.
26. Sakagami SF and Maeta Y (1985). Multifemale nests and rudimentary castes in the normally solitary bee Ceratina japonica (Hymenoptera, Xylocopinae). J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 57: 639-656.
27. Sakagami SF, Laroca S and Moure JS (1967). Two Brazilian apid nests worth recording in a reference to comparative bee sociology with description of Euglossa melanotricha Moure sp.n. (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini). Annot. Zool. Jpn. 40: 45-50.
28. Santos ML and Garófalo CA (1994). Nesting biology and nest re-use of Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Euglossini). Insectes Soc. 41: 99-110.
29. Schwarz MP and Woods RE (1994). Order of adult eclosion is a major determinant of reproductive dominance in the allodapine bee Exoneura bicolor. Anim. Behav. 47: 373-378.
30. Schwarz MP, Richards MH and Danforth BN (2007). Changing paradigms in insect social evolution: insights from halictine and allodapine bees. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 52: 127-150. (Pubitemid 46133565)
31. Sofia SH and Suzuki KM (2004). Communities of Euglossini males (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in forest fragments from southern Brazil. Neotrop. Entomol. 33: 693-702.
32. Soucy SL, Giray T and Roubik DW (2003). Solitary and group nesting in the orchid bee Euglossa hyacinthina (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Insectes Soc. 50: 248-255. (Pubitemid 37096337)
33. Stubblefield JW and Charnov EL (1986). Some conceptual issues in the origin of eusociality. Heredity 57: 181-187.
34. Tsuji K and Tsuji N (2005). Why is dominance hierarchy age-related in social insects? The relative longevity hypothesis. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 58: 517-526.
35. Young AM (1985). Notes on the nest structure and emergence of Euglossa turbinifex Dressler (Hymenoptera; Apidae; Euglossini) in Costa Rica. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 58: 538-543.
36. Zucchi R, Sakagami SF and Camargo JMF (1969a). Biological observations on a tropical parasocial bee, Eulaema nigrita, with a review on the biology of Euglossinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae). A comparative study. J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ. Series IV, Zool. 17: 271-380.
37. Zucchi R, Oliveira BL and Camargo JMF (1969b). Notas bionômicas sobre Euglossa (Glossura) intersecta Latreille 1838 e descrição de suas larvas e pupas (Euglossini, Apidae). Bol. Univ. Fed. Paraná, Zool. 3: 203-224.