Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Are behavioral classifications blinders to studying natural variation?
- 2 Life beneath silk walls: a review of the primitively social Embiidina
- 3 Postovulation parental investment and parental care in cockroaches
- 4 The spectrum of eusociality in termites
- 5 Maternal care in the Hemiptera: ancestry, alternatives, and current adaptive value
- 6 Evolution of paternal care in the giant water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)
- 7 The evolution of sociality in aphids: a clone's-eye view
- 8 Ecology and evolution of social behavior among Australian gall thrips and their allies
- 9 Interactions among males, females and offspring in bark and ambrosia beetles: the significance of living in tunnels for the evolution of social behavior
- 10 Biparental care and social evolution in burying beetles: lessons from the larder
- 11 Subsocial behavior in Scarabaeinae beetles
- 12 The evolution of social behavior in Passalidae (Coleoptera)
- 13 The evolution of social behavior in the augochlorine sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of the genera
- 14 Demography and sociality in halictine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
- 15 Behavioral environments of sweat bees (Halictinae) in relation to variability in social organization
- 16 Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with social evolution in allodapine bees
- 17 Cooperative breeding in wasps and vertebrates: the role of ecological constraints
- 18 Morphologically ‘primitive’ ants: comparative review of social characters, and the importance of queen–worker dimorphism
- 19 Social conflict and cooperation among founding queens in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
- 20 Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: ecological context and communication in larval societies
- 21 Sociality and kin selection in Acari
- 22 Colonial web-building spiders: balancing the costs and benefits of group-living
- 23 Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent-sociality in spiders
- 24 Explanation and evolution of social systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
8 - Ecology and evolution of social behavior among Australian gall thrips and their allies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Are behavioral classifications blinders to studying natural variation?
- 2 Life beneath silk walls: a review of the primitively social Embiidina
- 3 Postovulation parental investment and parental care in cockroaches
- 4 The spectrum of eusociality in termites
- 5 Maternal care in the Hemiptera: ancestry, alternatives, and current adaptive value
- 6 Evolution of paternal care in the giant water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)
- 7 The evolution of sociality in aphids: a clone's-eye view
- 8 Ecology and evolution of social behavior among Australian gall thrips and their allies
- 9 Interactions among males, females and offspring in bark and ambrosia beetles: the significance of living in tunnels for the evolution of social behavior
- 10 Biparental care and social evolution in burying beetles: lessons from the larder
- 11 Subsocial behavior in Scarabaeinae beetles
- 12 The evolution of social behavior in Passalidae (Coleoptera)
- 13 The evolution of social behavior in the augochlorine sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of the genera
- 14 Demography and sociality in halictine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
- 15 Behavioral environments of sweat bees (Halictinae) in relation to variability in social organization
- 16 Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with social evolution in allodapine bees
- 17 Cooperative breeding in wasps and vertebrates: the role of ecological constraints
- 18 Morphologically ‘primitive’ ants: comparative review of social characters, and the importance of queen–worker dimorphism
- 19 Social conflict and cooperation among founding queens in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
- 20 Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: ecological context and communication in larval societies
- 21 Sociality and kin selection in Acari
- 22 Colonial web-building spiders: balancing the costs and benefits of group-living
- 23 Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent-sociality in spiders
- 24 Explanation and evolution of social systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
Summary
My walls give me food,
And protect me from foes,
I eat at my leisure,
In safety repose.
A. B. COMSTOCK (1911) Handbook of Nature-Study. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing.ABSTRACT
Australian gall–forming thrips and their allies comprise a group of several dozen species with a remarkable range of life histories and social systems. These species can be categorized into six ecological modes: (1) gall–formers on Acacia, which include species of Oncothrips, Kladothrips and Onychothrips in which galls are initiated by a single female, or a male and a female; (2) kleptoparasites in the genus Koptothrips, which usurp galls, kill the gall–formers, and breed inside; (3) opportunistic gall–inhabitants, such as some Warithrips, Grypothrips and Csirothrips, which breed in abandoned galls after the original inhabitants have left; (4) domicile–formers in the genera Lichanothrips, Panoplothrips, Dunatothrips and Carcinothrips, which either glue phyllodes (petioles modified as leaves) together and live inside, or use a cellophane–like material to create an enclosed space containing multiple apical Acacia phyllodes; (5) lepidopteran leaf–tie inhabitants, Warithrips, which live in phyllodes tied by lepidopteran silk; and (6) pre–existing hole inhabitatants, species of Dactylothrips and Katothrips that live in old Hymenoptera galls, abandoned leaf mines, or holes in split–stem galls. Social behavior of these Australian thrips include soldier castes in four species of Oncothrips and two species of Kladothrips, a wingless, apparently non–soldier morph in Oncothrips sterni, pleometrotic (multiple– adult) colony founding in species of Katothrips, Dunatothrips, and Lichanothrips, and group foraging in a Lichanothrips.
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- The Evolution of Social Behaviour in Insects and Arachnids , pp. 166 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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