Fig. 1 in Nesting Biologies and Immature Stages of the Tapinotaspidine Bee Genera Monoeca and Lanthanomelissa and of Their Osirine Cleptoparasites Protosiris and Parepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apinae)

  • ROZEN, JEROME G.
  • MELO, GABRIEL A. R.
  • AGUIAR, ANTÔNIO JOSÉ CAMILLO
  • ALVES-DOS-SANTOS, ISABEL
Publication date
January 2006

Abstract

Fig. 1. Nesting site of Monoeca haemorrhoidalis, showing dense ground cover in foreground. Fig. 2. Close­up of two nest entrances of same. Fig. 3. Main burrow of Monoeca haemorrhoidalis showing repetitive tamping impressions on shiny burrow wall. Fig. 4. Monoeca haemorrhoidalis, spiral inner surface of cell closure. Figs. 5, 6. Closure ends of cells of Monoeca haemorrhoidalis, showing plugged entrance holes made by females of Protosiris gigas; holes are filled by them as they depart.Published as part of ROZEN, JEROME G., MELO, GABRIEL A. R., AGUIAR, ANTÔNIO JOSÉ CAMILLO & ALVES-DOS-SANTOS, ISABEL, 2006, Nesting Biologies and Immature Stages of the Tapinotaspidine Bee Genera Monoeca and Lanthanomelissa and of Their Osirine Cleptoparasites Pr...

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