NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN BULLDOG ANTS (MYRMECIA) AND THEIR CHALCIDOID PARASITES OF THE GENUS AUSTEUCHARIS BOUCEK (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE, MYRMECIINAE, EUCHARITIDAE, EUCHARITINAE)

Authors
TAYLOR RW JAISSON P NAUMANN ID SHATTUCK SO
Citation
Rw. Taylor et al., NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN BULLDOG ANTS (MYRMECIA) AND THEIR CHALCIDOID PARASITES OF THE GENUS AUSTEUCHARIS BOUCEK (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE, MYRMECIINAE, EUCHARITIDAE, EUCHARITINAE), Sociobiology, 23(2), 1993, pp. 109-114
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Sociobiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03616525
Volume
23
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
109 - 114
Database
ISI
SICI code
0361-6525(1993)23:2<109:NOTBOA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Evidence is presented that Austeucharis parasites overwinter in Myrmec ia nests either (1) as immatures cryptically associated with the larva e and adults of those ant species which overwinter their own larvae; o r(2) in the case of Myrmeciaspecies which do not themselves overwinter brood, enclosed in pupal cocoons originally produced during the prece ding summer by parasitized Myrmecia larvae (such cocoons being retaine d in the ant nests long after the normal pre-winter Myrmecia emergence season). Eucharitids have been previously reported to overwinter only away from host ant nests as eggs laid in plant tissues.