WORKERS AND QUEENS OF THE EUROPEAN HORNET VESPA-CRABRO L HAVE COLONY-SPECIFIC CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON PROFILES (HYMENOPTERA, VESPIDAE)

Citation
Dp. Butts et al., WORKERS AND QUEENS OF THE EUROPEAN HORNET VESPA-CRABRO L HAVE COLONY-SPECIFIC CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON PROFILES (HYMENOPTERA, VESPIDAE), Insectes sociaux, 42(1), 1995, pp. 45-55
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology,Entomology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00201812
Volume
42
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
45 - 55
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-1812(1995)42:1<45:WAQOTE>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Cuticular hydrocarbons were extracted from sixty individual workers fr om six colonies of Vespa crabro L. and analyzed by combined gas-chroma tography/mass spectrometry. Discriminant analysis of the cuticular hyd rocarbon profiles of workers and queens showed that the wasps could be grouped by colony and by caste. Stepwise discriminant analysis select ed the components which were weighted most heavily in these analyses. Different combinations of cuticular hydrocarbons were important in gro uping workers by colony, queens and workers by colony, and workers and queens by caste.