Polydomy in the ant Ectatomma opaciventre

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dc.contributor.authorTofolo, Viviane C. [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorGiannotti, Edilberto [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorNeves, Erika F.
dc.contributor.authorAndrade, Luis H. C.
dc.contributor.authorLima, Sandro M.
dc.contributor.authorSúarez, Yzel R.
dc.contributor.authorAntonialli-Junior, William F.
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Programa de pos-graduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS)
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T07:20:28Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T07:20:28Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-01
dc.description.abstractTropical ants commonly exhibit a hyper-dispersed pattern of spatial distribution of nests. In polydomous species, nests may be satellites, that is, secondary structures of the main nest, where the queen is found. In order to evaluate whether the ant Ectatomma opaciventre Roger (Formicidae: Ectatomminae) uses the strategy of building polydomous nests, the spatial distribution pattern of 33 nests in a 1,800 m2 degraded area located in Rio Claro, SP, Brazil, were investigated using the nearest neighbor method. To complement the results of this investigation, the cuticular chemical profile of eight colonies was analyzed using Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy (FTIR-PAS). The nests of E. opaciventre presented a hyper-dispersed or regular distribution, which is the most common in ants. The analysis of the cuticular hydrocarbons apparently confirmed the hypothesis that this species is polydomous, since the chemical profiles of all studied colonies with nests at different sites were very similar to the chemical signature of the single found queen and were also different from those of colonies used as control. © 2014 Journal of Insect Science.en
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Instituto de Biociências, Centro de estudos de Insetos Sociais (CEIS), Rio-Claro/SP
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Rio-Claro/SP
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Programa de pos-graduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Dourados, MS
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Centro Integrado de Análise e Monitoramento Ambiental, Dourados/MS
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Instituto de Biociências, Centro de estudos de Insetos Sociais (CEIS), Rio-Claro/SP
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Rio-Claro/SP
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.014.21
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Insect Science, v. 14.
dc.identifier.doi10.1673/031.014.21
dc.identifier.issn1536-2442
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84906848512
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/227855
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Insect Science
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectcolony organization
dc.subjectcuticular hydrocarbons
dc.subjectnestmate recognition
dc.subjectsatellite nests
dc.subjectspatial distribution
dc.titlePolydomy in the ant Ectatomma opaciventreen
dc.typeArtigo

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Rio Claro - CEIS - Centro de Estudos de Insetos Sociais
Artigos - Zoologia - IBRC