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NEW GEOGRAPHIC RANGE AND FIRST RECORD OF Seira tinguira (COLLEMBOLA: ENTOMOBRYIDAE) IN A COLONY OF Polistes ferreri (HYMENOPTERA, VESPIDAE)

Acta Biológica Colombiana
The springtail Seira tinguira was observed for the first time in the state of Minas Gerais in a colony of the social wasp Polistes ferreri. The colony was collected in the Botanical Garden of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, a fragment of Montane
Tatiane Tagliatti Maciel, Bruno Corrêa Barbosa, Nikolas Gioia Cipola, Fábio Prezoto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unveiling Wasps as Potential Pollinators: Floral Traits and Wasp Sociality Intensify Network Centrality in a Highly Diverse Tropical Ecosystem

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 10, Page 1520-1531, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Wasps, members of over 90 hymenopteran families, exhibit diverse behaviours, including pollination, predation and parasitism. While wasps are known pollinators in specialised systems, such as the intricate mutualism of fig trees and the deceptive pollination of certain orchids, they have historically been considered ineffective pollinators ...
Beatriz Lopes Monteiro, Julio Cesar Lopes Santiago, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Irene Gélvez‐Zúñiga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2004
Background Social wasps in the subfamily Polistinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) have been important in studies of the evolution of sociality, kin selection, and within colony conflicts of interest.
Strassmann Joan E, Carpenter James M, Zhu Yong, Arévalo Elisabeth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Activity schedule and foraging in Protopolybia sedula (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) [PDF]

, 2015
Protopolybia sedula is a social swarming wasp, widely spread throughout many countries in the Americas, including most of Brazil. Despite its distribution, studies of its behavioral ecology are scarce. This study aimed to describe its
Barbosa, Bruno Corrêa, Castro, Mariana Monteiro de, Detoni, Mateus, Mattos, Maria do Carmo, Prezoto, Fabio   +4 more
core  

When attempts at robbing prey turn fatal [PDF]

, 2012
Because group-hunting arboreal ants spreadeagle insect prey for a long time before retrieving them, these prey can be coveted by predatory flying insects. Yet, attempting to rob these prey is risky if the ant species is also an effective predator.
Azémar, Frédéric, Carpenter, James M., Corbara, Bruno, Dejean, Alain   +3 more
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Incidental pollination by passing animals: An overlooked mechanism?

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 1245-1250, September 2025.
The conservation of pollinators is essential for sustaining the ecosystem services of pollen transfer, which support crop production, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem health. While primary pollinators have been the focus of most conservation efforts, subordinate or incidental pollinators have been largely overlooked.
Kazuo Yamazaki
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity of Insecta in Amazonia: Updating the geographic records of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Acre and Rondônia States, Brazil

Sociobiology, 2020
The Acre and Rondônia states in Brazil are part of Western Amazon rainforest in Brazil, an area harboring high biodiversity and high degree of endemisms Nevertheless, there are few studies on diversity of social wasps occurring in both states. This study
Alexandre Somavilla, Raimundo Nonato de Morais Junior, Paulo Cézar Salgado Barroso, Marcio Luiz Oliveira, José Albertino Rafael   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Richness of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in an olive crop (Olea europaea L.), area associated with a mixed fragment of Atlantic Forest in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Revista Chilena de Entomología
The presence of Atlantic Forest fragments adjacent to agricultural areas enhances agricultural production by supporting populations of natural enemies, such as social wasps, which play a role in biological control.
Andressa Negri Palandi, Letícia de Oliveira Silva, Eike Daniel Fôlha-Ferreira, Glauco Cássio de Sousa Oliveira, Gabriel de Castro Jacques, Marcos Magalhães de Souza   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolving perspectives in Hymenoptera systematics: Bridging fossils and genomes across time

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 1-31, January 2025.
Advances in sequencing and phylogenomic methods reveal unresolved deep phylogenetic nodes with variable age estimates in Hymenoptera, including, for example, Eusymphyta and Proctotrupomorpha. Conflicting morphological and molecular data hinder consensus in Hymenoptera systematics.
Y. Miles Zhang, Silas Bossert, Tamara Spasojevic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The First Workers of the Ant Camponotus obscuripes Are a Different Allometric Morph with Relatively Long Antennae to Communicate with Other Larger Colony Members

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The first workers produced by an ant queen with a claustral founding mode are much smaller than the workers after the second generation and are thus called “nanitics.” These nanitics shoulder the initial fate of the colony and thus may be different morphometric morph from the other workers in mature colony to optimize the survival of their own colony ...
Saori Watanabe, Mamoru Terayama, Ryota Kawauchiya, Natsuki Ogusu, Yusuke Fujita, Syunta Mikami, Yuuka Murakami, Eisuke Hasegawa, Abraham Hefetz   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source