著者

Yisiaki ITO Seigo HIGASHI

出版者

日本応用動物昆虫学会

雑誌

Applied Entomology and Zoology (ISSN:00036862)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, no.4, pp.519-527, 1987-11-25 (Released:2008-02-07)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

10

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Spring behaviour of Rapalidia plebeiana females within a huge nest aggregation was observed under a bridge in Cabbage Tree Creek, New South Wales, Australia. Although a great many combs existed in a dense aggregation, each comb was defended by a group of particular females, and intercomb drift of females was not frequent, suggesting that the social systme of R. plebeiana in huge nest aggregation was not a 'supercolony' reported in some ants, but a permanent aggregation of independent nests. Females oviposited in old cells; viz. combs were used more than one year. More than ninety percent of females were inseminated and seventy percent had developed eggs in ovaries.