Morphological Caste Differences in Three Species of the Neotropical GenusClypearia(Hymenoptera: Polistinae: Epiponini) | Zendy

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Morphological Caste Differences in Three Species of the Neotropical GenusClypearia(Hymenoptera: Polistinae: Epiponini)

Author(s) -

Giovanna Tocchini Felippotti,

Lucas Mateus,

Sidnei Mateus,

Fernando Barbosa Noll,

Ronaldo Zucchi

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

psyche a journal of entomology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1687-7438

pISSN - 0033-2615

DOI - 10.1155/2010/410280

Subject(s) - biology , caste , hymenoptera , genus , zoology , ecology , philosophy , linguistics

Clypearia is a rare genus of swarm-founding Neotropical wasp whose biology is very little known. Morphological castes differences, condition of ovaries, relative age, and color pattern differences were analyzed in three species of Clypearia. Physiological differences and low morphometric differentiation between queens and workers were present in all species studied, indicating that these species are characterized by “physiological caste only”. We suggest that caste determination in the three Clypearia species studied is postimaginal

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