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Social Parasitism in Ants The Behavioural Ecology of 15 Social Parasitism in Ants Robin J. Stuart Citrus Research and Education ...

8800 described ant species (Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990), and they encompass almost every conceivable mode of commensalism and p ...

rare, many more species with diverse and perhaps bizarre life-history strategies probably still await discovery. In this chapter ...

hosts, often referred to as ‘Emery’s rule’ (Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990; Bourke and Franks, 1995), contrasts sharply with the mu ...

Cleptobiosis In cleptobiosis, one species builds its nests in close proximity to another and feeds from its refuse piles or stea ...

Perhaps the best-known case of xenobiosis is that of the shampoo ant, originally described by Wheeler (1903, 1910), in whichForm ...

tending her and rearing her brood. As the parasite’s brood ecloses, the colony’s worker force becomes a mixture of the two speci ...

Formica, are large and shiny red or black, have extraordinary toothless, sickle-shaped mandibles and conduct dramatic, well-orga ...

differ from all other ants (see Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990). Some authors have suggested that inquilines that tolerate the host ...

Mating within the nest. Limited dispersal of mated queens. Coexistence of multiple queens in the same nest (i.e. polygyny). Rar ...

When the host species is common and suitable habitat is widespread, then host-habitat finding is unlikely to be a problem or to ...

less, adoptions into alien conspecific nests are apparently possible and are quite common in some species (Alloway, 1980, 1997; ...

that were present in the parasite colony where they eclosed could be an important aspect of host specificity (Topoff, 1997). Mor ...

Colony founding by slave-maker queens is also typically aggressive, with newly mated queens often appearing to use the same leth ...

relationships and origins remain unresolved. For example, it is unclear whether xenobiosis or temporary social parasitism ever l ...