Author:Bernhard SEIFERT & Gerhard HELLER


Year:
1999

Title:
Carrying of a worker pupa by a singly-dispersing foundress of Acropyga paleartica MENOZZI, 1936 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)


Journal:
Myrmecologische Nachrichten


Volume:
3


Pages:
63-65


Keywords:
ants, independent colony foundation, Acropyga paleartica

Abstract:
An alate queen of Acropyga paleartica MENOZZI, 1936 was observed to carry a worker pupa during dispersal for independent colony foundation. The observed behaviour is suspected to represent a redirected activity in connection with the fixed behavioural mechanism of Acropyga to carry a coccoid larva during dispersal, mating, and nest foundation.

Publisher:
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik

ISSN:
1994-4136