Corbara Bruno, Carpenter J M, Céréghino R, Leponce M, Gibernau M, Dejean Alain
UMR-CNRS 6023, Université Blaise-Pascal, complexe scientifique des Cézeaux, Aubière, France.
C R Biol. 2009 May;332(5):470-9. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2009.01.003. Epub 2009 Mar 3.
We examined 424 nests belonging to 61 wasp species along 5 km of rainforest edges in French Guiana (ca. 15,235 plants monitored), and estimate that we recorded up to 73% of the local social wasp fauna. This baseline study was complemented by a long-term survey of the same area and the examination of isolated trees (permitting us to record two additional species, resulting in a total of 63 wasp species). Our results form a continuum from species avoiding nesting on any plant (6.5% of the wasp species) to species nesting on plants but avoiding those sheltering ant nests (82%), to, finally, wasps nesting in association with arboreal ants known to divert army ant raids (11.5%). Consequently, this study documents that most wasp species select plants possibly repulsive to arboreal ants, while associations with arboreal ants, although confirmed here, have been overrepresented in the literature.
我们在法属圭亚那5公里长的雨林边缘检查了属于61种黄蜂的424个巢穴（约监测了15235株植物），并估计我们记录了当地多达73%的社会性黄蜂种类。这项基线研究得到了对同一地区的长期调查以及对孤立树木的检查的补充（使我们又记录到另外两个物种，黄蜂种类总数达到63种）。我们的研究结果形成了一个连续体，从避免在任何植物上筑巢的物种（占黄蜂种类的6.5%）到在植物上筑巢但避开有蚁巢的植物的物种（82%），再到最后与已知能转移行军蚁袭击的树栖蚂蚁共生筑巢的黄蜂（11.5%）。因此，这项研究证明，大多数黄蜂种类选择的植物可能会令树栖蚂蚁厌恶，而与树栖蚂蚁的共生关系，尽管在此得到证实，但在文献中却被过度强调了。
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