ASIAN
MYRMECOLOGY
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Behaviour
DOI: 10.20362/am.009009
Asian Myrmecology 9: e009009 (1-6)
article first published online 27/April/2017
Synchronized group retrieval of honeydew by Prenolepis ants in Singapore
CHRISTIAN PEETERS1* & GORDON YONG2
Abstract:
Prenolepis of the Formicinae sybfamily are smallish ants that mostly inhabit soil, leaf litter, and rotten wood on the ground and appear to be generalist omnivores and often gather hemipteran exudates. This work reports on synchronized group retrieval of honeydew by Prenolepis subopaca ants in Singapore.
Keywords:
foraging, repletes, temporal niche, Formicinae
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1Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, UMR CNRS 7618, Sorbonne Universités UPMC, Paris 75005, France
2Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
*Corresponding author: christian.peeters@upmc.fr
