caa a22 4500 397546300 CHVBK 20180308164739.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19960701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/aesa/89.4.550 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/aesa/89.4.550 Ito Fuminori Laboratory of Biology, Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, Takamatsu 760, Japan. Colony Characteristics of the Indonesian Myrmicine Ant Myrmecina sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae): Polygynous Reproduction by Ergatoid Queens [Elektronische Daten] [Fuminori Ito] Colony composition of Myrmecina sp. A, which has a specialized myrmecophilous oribatid mite Aribates javensis Aoki, Takaku, & Ito, was studied in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. The colonies had no alate or dealate queens. Alternatively, an average of 8 ergatoid queens, who were easily distinguished from workers in width and length of the 4th abdominal tergaite, mated and laid eggs. Males were frequently produced in many colonies, but, production of ergatoid queens was observed in only 2 of 24 colonies in the field. Expulsion of some old ergatoid queens by workers was observed after emergence of new ergatoid queens in one colony. Experimental evidence confirmed the presence of queens had the negative effect on production of new ergatoid queens. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Arthropod Biology nationallicence ants nationallicence ergatoid queen nationallicence reproduction nationallicence Myrmecina nationallicence Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/4(1996-07-01), 550-554 0013-8746 89:4<550 1996 89 aesa https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.4.550 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.4.550 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ito Fuminori Laboratory of Biology, Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, Takamatsu 760, Japan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/4(1996-07-01), 550-554 0013-8746 89:4<550 1996 89 aesa Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford