Note on predation of the brood of Mischocyttarus injucundus (de Saussure) by another social wasp in Caxiuanã, Pará, Brazil, with new records of species for the Ferreira Penna Research Station (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)

Note on predation of the brood of Mischocyttarus injucundus (de Saussure) by another social wasp in Caxiuanã, Pará, Brazil, with new records of species for the Ferreira Penna Research Station (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)

ABSTRACT Predation of the brood of Mischocyttarus injucundus by another polistine social wasp is reported from an Amazonian rainforest locality. This is the first report for the American tropics of naturally occurring predation by one social wasp on the brood of another. Three species are added to t...

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Main Authors: Orlando Tobias Silveira, Sherlem Patricia de Seixas Felizardo, Suzy Melry Cardoso dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia 2016-03-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
Subjects:
Epiponini
Interspecific predatory relation
Foraging
Hunting
Mischocyttarini
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262016000100114&lng=en&tlng=en

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