THELYTOKY AND ARRHENOTOKY IN THE ANT CATAGLYPHIS-CURSOR FONSC - (HYMENOPTERA-FORMICIDAE) - BIOLOGICAL CYCLE IN LABORATORY REARING OF COLONIES WITH A QUEEN AND COLONIES WITHOUT A QUEEN

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CAGNIANT, H
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[1] Laboratoire d'Entomologie, U.P.S., Toulouse Cedex, F 31077, 118, route de Narbonne
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10.1007/BF02283912
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Laboratory rearing of colonies of the Ant Cataglyphis cursor Fonsc. including a queen, confirm the field observations. In colonies without a queen, as well as in those with a queen, there appear alates queens and males, then workers. However, the number of individuals produced in colonies without a queen seem to be less important than in normal colonies. The rearing of workers produced in the laboratory without any contact with males, either during adult life or larval development, suggest the thelytoky with normal arrhenotoky assumption; indeed females (queens and workers) and males are both produced in these colonies. © 1979 Masson.
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