02614oam 2200493 450 991048480320332120230405172911.01-80316-129-93-030-28102-710.1007/978-3-030-28102-1(CKB)4100000011743138(OCoLC)1237738342(DE-He213)978-3-030-28102-1(MiAaPQ)EBC6466114(PPN)253252792(EXLCZ)99410000001174313820210625d2021 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEncyclopedia of social insects /Christopher K. Starr, editor1st ed. 2021.Cham, Switzerland :Springer,[2021]©20211 online resource 491 ill., 416 ill. in color3-030-28101-9 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.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. .Insect societiesEncyclopediasEntomologyInsect societiesEntomology.595.71782Starr Christopher K.1949-MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWAzTeSBOOK9910484803203321Encyclopedia of Social Insects2517738UNINA