Encyclopedia of Social Insects [E-Book] / edited by Christopher K. Starr.
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...
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Personal Name(s): | Starr, Christopher K., editor |
Edition: |
1st edition 2021. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2021
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Physical Description: |
eReference, 491 illustrations, 416 illustrations in color (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783030281021 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-28102-1 |
Subject (LOC): |
- 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.