Sexual Behaviour in the Slave-making Ant, Harpagoxenus canadensis M. R. Smith, and Sexual Pheromone Experiments with H. canadensis, H. americanus (Emery), and H. sublaevis (Nylander) (Hymenoptera; Formicidae)
| Autor: | Thomas M. Alloway, Alfred Buschinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Ecology
Interspecific competition Hymenoptera Biology biology.organism_classification Slave-making ant Sex pheromone General Earth and Planetary Sciences Animal Science and Zoology Sexual pheromone Mating Gland secretion Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Harpagoxenus canadensis General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 49:113-119 |
| ISSN: | 0044-3573 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1979.tb00279.x |
| Popis: | The sexual behaviour of Harpagoxenus canadensis closely resembles that of European H. sublaevis. Young ♀♀ of both species exhibit a sexual-calling behaviour (Locksterzeln) during which they attract the ♂♂ by poison gland secretion. The sexual pheromones of both species seem to be identical, but interspecific mating is prevented by various behavioural mechanisms of the ♀♀. A third species, H. americanus, seems to be less closely related to H. canadensis and H. sublaevis: Its ♂♂ are not sensitive to the pheromones of these two species. |
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