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Morphological studies on the mature worker larvae of Paratrechina fulva (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

dc.contributor.authorFox, Eduardo Gonçalves Paterson [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorSolis, Daniel Russ [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorRossi, Monica Lanzoni
dc.contributor.authorBueno, Odair Correa [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T21:01:22Z
dc.date.available2022-04-28T21:01:22Z
dc.date.issued2010-06-14
dc.description.abstractThe ant Paratrechina fulva is native to Brazil, but has spread to other countries where it has become a serious pest. Their larvae are known from a preliminary description made without the aid of scanning electron microscopy. The present investigation aimed at describing the mature worker larvae of this species in deeper detail, while identifying useful morphological characters for taxonomy and cladistics. General morphological traits typical of Paratrechina larvae described so far were also confirmed with this species, particularly regarding body shape, types of hairs, and distribution pattern of head sensilla, but P. fulva presented unusually shaped mandibles.en
dc.description.affiliationCentro de Estudos de Insetos Sociais Instituto de Biociencias Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, Sao Paulo
dc.description.affiliationLaboratório de Histopatologia Biologia Estrutural de Plantas University of Sao Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, Sao Paulo
dc.description.affiliationUnespCentro de Estudos de Insetos Sociais Instituto de Biociencias Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, Sao Paulo
dc.format.extent795-803
dc.identifier.citationSociobiology, v. 55, n. 3, p. 795-803, 2010.
dc.identifier.issn0361-6525
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-77953245377
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/225868
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSociobiology
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectLarval characters
dc.subjectScanning electron microscopy
dc.subjectTaxonomy
dc.titleMorphological studies on the mature worker larvae of Paratrechina fulva (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)en
dc.typeArtigo
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