Nest camouflage in Metapolybia cingulata and nesting and colony defensive behavior in Metapolybia docilis (Vespidae: Polistinae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v69i4.8317Keywords:
agressive displays, colony defense, nest architecture, wasp colonyAbstract
Colony defense by social wasps includes aggressive behavior and camouflage with a high diversity of adaptation of their nests to the environment, including substrate choice. The objective of this study was to present new data on nesting and colony defense by the Neotropical social wasps Metapolybia cingulata and Metapolybia docilis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Field observations were made on January 4th and 5th, 2022 at the State Park of Iguaçu, state of Paraná, Brazil, on M. cingulata and M. docilis nests and information on nesting of these wasps obtained in 2014 at the Pandeiros River Wildlife Refuge (REVIS), and in 2012 at the Rio Doce State Park, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The types of substrates used by M. cingulata and M. docilis reinforce the importance of nest camouflage as a defense strategy for their colonies. The selection of nesting sites by these species was very variable.
Downloads
References
Alvarenga, R.D., De-Castro, M.M., Santos-Prezoto, H.H. & Prezoto, F. (2010). Nesting of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in urban gardens in Southeastern Brazil. Sociobiology, 55: 445-452.
Andena, S.R. & Carpenter, J.M. (2011). A new species of Metapolybia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Entomologica Americana, 117:117-120. doi: 10.1664/11-RA-003.1
Andena, S.R., Mateus, S., Nascimento, F.S. & Carpenter, J.M. (2019). Description of a new species of Metapolybia, a Neotropical genus of social wasps, from the Amazon Forest. Sociobiology, 66: 377-380. doi: 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i2. 3731
Barbosa, B.C., Dias, L.M., Vieira, K.M. & Prezoto, F. (2016). Cryptic nest of Mischocyttarus iheringi (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Florida Entomologist, 9: 135-138. doi: 10.1653/ 024.099.0130
Barbosa, B.C., Maciel, T.T., Gonzaga, D.R. & Prezoto, F. (2020). Social wasps in an urban fragment: seasonality and selection of nesting substrates. Journal of Natural History, 54:1581-1591. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1814889
Chadab, R. (1979). Early warning cues for social wasps attacked by army ants. Psyche, 86: 115-124.
Chavarría-Pizzarro, L. & West-Eberhard, M.J. (2010). The behavior and natural history of Chartergellus, a little-known genus of neotropical social wasps (Vespidae Polistinae Epiponini). Ethology Ecology and Evolution, 22: 317-343. doi: 10.1080/03949370.2010.510035
Cooper, M. (1999). New species of Metapolybia Ducke (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 135: 107-110.
Del-Claro, K. (2010). Introdução à Ecologia Comportamental, um manual para o estudo do comportamento animal. Technical Books, 2nd ed. Rio de Janeiro, 134 p
Forsyth, A.B. (1981). Swarming activity of Polybiine social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polybiini). Biotropica, 13: 93-99. doi: 10.2307/2387710
Giannotti, E., Prezoto, F. & Machado, V.L.L. (1995). Foraging activity of Polistes lanio lanio (Fabr) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Anais da Sociedade de Entomologia do Brasil, 24: 445-463.
Jeanne, R.L. (1970). Chemical defense of brood by a social wasp. Science, 168: 1465-1466.
Jeanne, R.L. (1981). Alarm recruitment, attack behavior, and the role of alarm pheromone in Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 9: 143-148.
López, Y., Canchila, S., Durán, A. & Álvarez, D. (2012). Hábitos de nidificación de avispas sociales (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) en un área urbana del Caribe colombiano. Revista Colombiana de entomologia, 38: 347-350.
Milani, L.R., Queiroz, R.A.B., Souza, M.M., Clemente, M.A. & Prezoto, F. (2021). Camouflaged nests of Mischocyttarus mirificus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Neotropical Entomology, 50: 912-922. doi: 0.1007/s13744-021-00910-1
Oliveira, T.C.T., Souza, M.M. & Pires, E.P. (2017). Nesting habits of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in forest fragments associated with anthropic areas in southeastern Brazil. Sociobiology, 64: 101-104. doi: 10.13102/sociobiology.v64i1.1073
Richards, O.W. & Richards, M.J. (1951). Observations on the social wasps of South America (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 102: 1-169. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1951.tb01241.x
Santos, G.M.M. & Presley, S.J. (2010). Niche overlap and temporal activity patterns of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in a Brazilian cashew orchard. Sociobiology, 56: 121-131.
Sguarizi-Antonio, D., Michelutti, K.B., Soares, E.R.P., Batista, N.R., Lima-Junior, S.E., Cardoso, C.A.L., Torres, V.O. & Antonialli-Junior, W.F. (2021). Colonial chemical signature of social wasps and their nesting substrates. Chemoecology, 32: 41-47. doi: 10.1007/s00049-021-00361-5
Silva, E.S., Souza, M. M., Barboza, B.C., Castro, B.M.C., Silva-Junior, A.S.P., Zanetti, R. & Zanuncio, J.C. (2022). Chartergellus communis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): nesting and nest camouflage in different phytophysiognomies in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 82: 1-3. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.262516
Silva, R.C., Da-Silva, A.P., Assis, D.S. & Nascimento, F.S. (2019). Occurrence and nesting behavior of social wasps in an anthropized environment. Sociobiology, 66: 381-388. doi: 10. 13102/sociobiology.v66i2.4303
Somavilla, A., Oliveira, M.L. & Silveira, O.T. (2012). Guia de identificação de ninhos de vespas sociais (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) na Reserva Ducke, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 56: 405-414. doi: 10.1590/S0085-56262012000400003
Somavilla, A., Barbosa, B.C., Souza, M.M. & Prezoto, F. (2021). List of Species of Social Wasps from Brazil. In F. Prezoto, F. S. Nascimento, B.C. Barbosa & A. Somavilla (Eds.), Neotropical Social Wasps: Basic and Applied Aspects (pp. 293-316) Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Souza, M.M., Clemente, M.A. & Teofilo-Guedes, G.S. (2020). Nest camoufage records on five social wasp species (Vespidae, Polistinae) from southeastern Brazil. EntomoBrasilis, 13:1-929. doi: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v13.e929
Souza, M.M., Pires, E.P., Elpino-Campos, A. & Louzada, J.N.C. (2014). Nesting of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in a riparian forest of Rio das Mortes in southeastern Brazil. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, 36: 189-196. doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v36i2.21460
Souza, M.M. & Zanuncio, J.C. (2012). Marimbondos-Vespas Sociais (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). 1nd ed. Viçosa: Editora UFV, 79 p
West-Eberhard, M.J. (1969). The social biology of polistine wasps. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan, 101 p
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Marcos Magalhães de Souza, Norma Barbado, José Adolfo Mota de Almeida, Gabriel Teófilo-Guedes, José Cola Zanuncio
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Sociobiology is a diamond open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
eISSN 2447-8067
