Nesting habits of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in forest fragments associated with anthropic areas in southeastern Brazil

Authors

  • Tamires Camila Talamonte Oliveira Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras-MG
  • Marcos Magalhaes Souza Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Minas Gerais, Inconfidentes
  • Epifânio Porfiro Pires Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras – UFLA, CEP 37200-000, Lavras, MG, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v64i1.1073

Keywords:

Hymenoptera, colony, nesting substrate, synanthropism

Abstract

The community of social wasps and the substrates used for nesting were studied in anthropic environments associated with areas of natural vegetation in the period of March to September of 2015. Three hundred and forty-seven (347) colonies belonging to eighteen (18) species distributed in six genera were recorded. The species with the highest number of colonies were Mischocyttarus cassununga (R. Von Ilhering, 1903) (194 colonies), Mischocyttarus cerberus (Richards, 1940) (50 colonies) and Polybia Paulista (H. Von Ilhering, 1896) (23 colonies). For other species, the record ranged from one to eighteen colonies.

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2017-05-30

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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(1), 101–104. https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v64i1.1073

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Vol. 64 No. 1 (2017)

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Research Article - Wasps

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