HTI has compared sperm cells recovered from (i) testes of a male from one of the impaternata nests discussed above (Figure 2(b)), with (ii) others dissected from the spermathecae (sperm storage organs) of several
dealate impaternata queens from the same nests (Figure 2(c)) and (iii) sperm obtained from the testes of an M.
About 10 min after the start of the nuptial flight, we found the first dealate queen on the ground within the observed site.
The 32 dealate queens at the Kasori population were classified into two groups based on her genotype at a locus.
The presence and number of ant
dealate females, alate females, males, workers, cocoons, and larvae, as well as the presence of any adult myrmecophile (especially eucharitid parasitoids), were recorded.
tuberculatum collected from the whole Soconusco region over 16 yr, only 3 were digynous and one contained 4 non-functional, mermithised dealate females (Lachaud, unpublished data).
The presence or absence of alate and dealate females in each nest was noted, as well as the number of males, workers, cocoons (pupae), larvae, and the presence of eggs.
A new species of ant, Solenopsis enigmatica, is described from 2 dealate queens and 3 workers collected from nests of Pheidole antillana Forel in rainforest on the island of Dominica, West Indies.
phoretica, was described, based on a single dealate queen found clinging to the petiole of a queen of Pheidole dentata Mayr (Davis & Deyrup 2006).
Chouvenc T, Robert A, Semon E, Bordereau C (2012) Burial behaviour by
dealates of the termite Pseudacanthotermes spiniger (Termitidae, Macrotermitinae) induced by chemical signals from termite corpses.
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dealates were paired in a vial (8 x 2.5 cm diameter) with soil, wood, and agar.
After flying, the alates shed their wings and associate as pairs of female and male dealates. These pairs will crawl on the substrata in search for a suitable place to start a new colony (Snyder 1926; Wilkinson 1962; Nutting 1969; Minnick 1973).
brevis and congenus alates is followed by negative phototaxis of the dealates (Wilkinson 1962; Minnick 1973), although no data have been produced to confirm this observation.