Nesting and flower associations of the pollen wasp Ceramius fonscolombei Latreille, 1810 (Hymenoptera : Vespidae : Masarinae) in Spain

Mauss V., Muller A., Yildirim E.

JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, cilt.76, sa.1, ss.1-15, 2003 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 76 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2003
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-15
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae, pollen wasps, palaearctic, Iberian peninsular, bionomics, nest, flower ecology, behaviour, Resedaceae
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Following the concept of Gess and Gess (1988), the nesting and flower associations of Ceramius fonscolombei Latreille can be characterised by the following ethological elements: a. Nest excavated in non-friable soil; b. Burrow surmounted by a turret of earth extracted from within the burrow; c. Nest probably not re-used; d. Nest with a relatively short, vertical to sub-vertical main shaft, main shaft with a "bulb"-like expansion in the lower third of 50% of the nests; e. Main shaft continues into an oblique to subhorizontal secondary shaft terminated by a cell; f. Succeeding cells terminate further short, subhorizontal secondary shafts; g. Cells sub-horizontal, without preferred direction, except that the second cell is built at an angle of 140-170degrees from the first, all at different depths; h. No constructed mud-cell within an excavated cell; i. Forage plants are only species of Reseda (Resedaceae); analysis of brood cell contents revealed C fonscolombei to be oligolectic with regard to its pollen source: Cells were found to be provisioned with pollen of two species of Reseda.