CHALEPOXENUS-BRUNNEUS A WORKERLESS DEGENERATE SLAVE-MAKER ANT (HYMENOPTERA FORMICIDAE)

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-84330
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.8433

Buschinger, Alfred ; Cagniant, Henry ; Erhardt, Werner ; Heinze, Jürgen

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Item type:	Article
Journal or Publication Title:	Psyche (Cambridge)
Volume:	95
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:	3-4
Page Range:	pp. 253-264
Date:	1988
Institutions:	Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze)
Keywords:	Behavior; Communication; Development; Ecology (Environmental Sciences); Endocrine System (Chemical Coordination and Homeostasis); Parasitology; Pathology; Physiology; Reproductive System (Reproduction)
Dewey Decimal Classification:	500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	No
Item ID:	8433

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Chalepoxenus brunneus, found in only one very small site in the Great Atlas of Morocco, represents a workless parasitic species which is derived from actively dulotic congeners ("degenerate slavemaker"). The host species is Leptothorax cf. marocanus. The C. b. queen apparently eliminates the host colony queen by stinging her. She also stings to death a considerable part of the host colony ...

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