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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484803203321

Titolo

Encyclopedia of Social Insects / / edited by Christopher K. Starr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

1-80316-129-9

3-030-28102-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : 491 ill., 416 ill. in color

Disciplina

595.71782

Soggetti

Invertebrates

Biology - Technique

Conservation biology

Ecology

Animal migration

Invertebrate Zoology

Experimental Organisms

Conservation Biology

Animal Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Aculeata: phylogeny and classification -- african honey bees -- Allodapini -- Allomones -- Aneuretus simoni -- bees: ecological roles -- bees: phylogeny and classification -- brood care -- brood-stimulation theory [in army ants] -- bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) and Dinoponera -- cape honey bee -- carpenter ants (Camponotus) -- caste -- caste differentiation: ants -- caste differentiation: genetic and epigenetic factors -- dacetine ants -- dampwood termites (Archotermopsidae) -- defensive strategies -- Diacamma -- Dolichoderinae -- drywood termites (Kalotermitidae) -- Ectatomma -- eastern hive bee (Apis cerana) -- eusociality -- exocrine glands -- extra-floral nectaries -- fire ants (Solenopsis in part -- Foraminini -- Formicinae -- fossil social insects -- fungus-gardening ants.

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the



world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world. This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects. .