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Encyclopedia of Social Insects / edited by Christopher K. Starr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Invertebrates.
- Biology--Technique.
- Biology.
- Conservation biology.
- Ecology.
- Animal migration.
- Invertebrate Zoology.
- Experimental Organisms.
- Conservation Biology.
- Animal Migration.
- Local Subjects:
- Invertebrate Zoology.
- Experimental Organisms.
- Conservation Biology.
- Animal Migration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 491 ill., 416 ill. in color.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world. This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects. .
- Contents:
- Aculeata: phylogeny and classification
- african honey bees
- Allodapini
- Allomones
- Aneuretus simoni
- bees: ecological roles
- bees: phylogeny and classification
- brood care
- brood-stimulation theory [in army ants]
- bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) and Dinoponera
- cape honey bee
- carpenter ants (Camponotus)
- caste
- caste differentiation: ants
- caste differentiation: genetic and epigenetic factors
- dacetine ants
- dampwood termites (Archotermopsidae)
- defensive strategies
- Diacamma
- Dolichoderinae
- drywood termites (Kalotermitidae)
- Ectatomma
- eastern hive bee (Apis cerana)
- eusociality
- exocrine glands
- extra-floral nectaries
- fire ants (Solenopsis in part
- Foraminini
- Formicinae
- fossil social insects
- fungus-gardening ants.
- ISBN:
- 1-80316-129-9
- 3-030-28102-7
- OCLC:
- 1237738342
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