Camponotus renggeri (Formicidae) predated Agelaia vicina (Vespidae) nest and occupied Parachartergus pseudapicalis (Vespidae) nest

Authors

  • Marcos Magalhães de Souza Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas - Campus Inconfidentes
  • Lidiane Augusta Junqueira Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas - Campus Inconfidentes
  • Gabriel Castro Jacques Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Minas Gerais - Campus Bambuí
  • Gabriel Silva Teófilo-Guedes Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP
  • José Cola Zanuncio Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7883

Keywords:

ant, social wasp, Polistinae, predation

Abstract

Ants prey on social wasps affecting the evolution of nest architecture, defense behaviors, and selection of nesting sites of these insects. The importance of social wasps in natural and agricultural ecosystems, especially in biological control, justifies studies on predation of these insects by ants. The objective of this work is to report the colony predation of the social wasp Agelaia vicina (de Saussure, 1854) and the nest occupation of Parachartergus pseudapicalis Willinck, 1959 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) by the ant Camponotus renggeri Emery, 1894 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Atlantic Forest biome. The records occurred in 2015 and 2018 in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. This is the first record of C. renggeri preying on and occupying social wasp nests. This relationship between social wasps and ants constitutes an adaptation for the survival of these latter insects, and the limited number of records increases the need for research on the relevance of this phenomenon to the ecology of Atlantic Forest Hymenoptera.

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Author Biographies

Marcos Magalhães de Souza, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas - Campus Inconfidentes

Docente do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINAS, Laboratório de Zoologia.

Lidiane Augusta Junqueira, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas - Campus Inconfidentes

Acadêmica em Ciências Biológicas. Bolsista PIBID IF Sul de Minas Campus Inconfidentes. Bolsista Residência Pedagógica IF Sul de Minas Campus Inconfidentes.

Gabriel Silva Teófilo-Guedes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP

Mestrando da Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Instituto de Geociências, Departamento de Geologia e Recursos Naturais.

José Cola Zanuncio, Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV

Docente da Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV, Departamento de Entomologia.

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2022-06-30

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Magalhães de Souza, M., Augusta Junqueira, L., Jacques, G. C., Teófilo-Guedes, G. S., & Cola Zanuncio, J. (2022). Camponotus renggeri (Formicidae) predated Agelaia vicina (Vespidae) nest and occupied Parachartergus pseudapicalis (Vespidae) nest . Sociobiology, 69(2), e7883. https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7883

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Vol. 69 No. 2 (2022)

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