Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini)
Parachartergus wasps are known by having a very aggressive behavior, especially the large black species with white wings tip, which have painful stings. They exhibit a unique and interesting characteristic, the capacity to venom spraying during the colony defense or self-defense. However, for the A...
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| author | Marcos Aragão Bruno Corrêa Barbosa Rodolpho Santos Telles Menezes Alexandre Somavilla Marcio Luiz de Oliveira |
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Parachartergus wasps are known by having a very aggressive behavior, especially the large black species with white wings tip, which have painful stings. They exhibit a unique and interesting characteristic, the capacity to venom spraying during the colony defense or self-defense. However, for the Amazonian species Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854), little is known about its behavior and nesting. In this way, we tracked and described the nesting site, the numbers of combs, and performed an ad libitum method to record behavioral activities. The nest was fixed vertically on a man-made concrete column, 1.2 m above the ground, measuring 25.0 x 6.0 cm and contained four combs with approximately 74 cells, with 31 eggs, seven larvae, 30 pupae, and almost 42 adults. With a flat thin grayish envelope with weak corrugations, the nest is very similar to the color of the substrate which turn in to really cryptic. The colony defense behavior presented by this species is unaggressive and very docile, suggesting that is not similar as observed for other Parachartergus species.
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| spelling | doaj.art-65de596a071340fcb627c14d60017ee82023-08-23T11:07:22ZengUniversidade Estadual de Feira de SantanaSociobiology0361-65252447-80672023-08-0170310.13102/sociobiology.v70i3.9211Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini)Marcos Aragão0Bruno Corrêa Barbosa1Rodolpho Santos Telles Menezes2Alexandre Somavilla3Marcio Luiz de Oliveira4Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), PPPG Ciências Biológicas (Entomologia), Manaus, Amazonas, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, BrazilUniversidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, lhéus, Bahia, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, Brazil Parachartergus wasps are known by having a very aggressive behavior, especially the large black species with white wings tip, which have painful stings. They exhibit a unique and interesting characteristic, the capacity to venom spraying during the colony defense or self-defense. However, for the Amazonian species Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854), little is known about its behavior and nesting. In this way, we tracked and described the nesting site, the numbers of combs, and performed an ad libitum method to record behavioral activities. The nest was fixed vertically on a man-made concrete column, 1.2 m above the ground, measuring 25.0 x 6.0 cm and contained four combs with approximately 74 cells, with 31 eggs, seven larvae, 30 pupae, and almost 42 adults. With a flat thin grayish envelope with weak corrugations, the nest is very similar to the color of the substrate which turn in to really cryptic. The colony defense behavior presented by this species is unaggressive and very docile, suggesting that is not similar as observed for other Parachartergus species. http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/9211Aggressiveness; Behavior; Hymenoptera; Social wasps; Swarm-founding |
| spellingShingle | Marcos Aragão Bruno Corrêa Barbosa Rodolpho Santos Telles Menezes Alexandre Somavilla Marcio Luiz de Oliveira Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) Sociobiology Aggressiveness; Behavior; Hymenoptera; Social wasps; Swarm-founding |
| title | Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) |
| title_full | Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) |
| title_fullStr | Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) |
| title_short | Hey, hold on, we are good guys! Colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of Parachartergus fulgidipennis (de Saussure, 1854) (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini) |
| title_sort | hey hold on we are good guys colony defense behavior and notes on nesting of parachartergus fulgidipennis de saussure 1854 vespidae polistinae epiponini |
| topic | Aggressiveness; Behavior; Hymenoptera; Social wasps; Swarm-founding |
| url | http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/9211 |
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