Nesting habits, alternative nesting strategies and female territoriality of the cockroach-hunting solitary wasp Penepodium luteipenne (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) | Zendy

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Nesting habits, alternative nesting strategies and female territoriality of the cockroach-hunting solitary wasp Penepodium luteipenne (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)

Author(s) -

Sandor Christiano Buys

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of hymenoptera research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1314-2607

pISSN - 1070-9428

DOI - 10.3897/jhr.24.1828

Subject(s) - sphecidae , biology , nest (protein structural motif) , hymenoptera , territoriality , brood parasite , ecology , brood , digging , nesting (process) , zoology , parasitism , geography , host (biology) , archaeology , biochemistry , materials science , metallurgy

Figures 1-5 - Nesting behaviour of Penepodium luteipenne 1 Digging of the nest, the accumulated lose earth around the nest entrance is the earth excavated from the burrow 2 stinging of the prey 3 oviposition (setae in the wasp's front leg) 4 placement of the prey into the nest 5 female pushing a prey stuck in the nest entrance, using both the front and mid legs, and the opened mandibles

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