Dos Santos Aline Borba, do Nascimento Fábio Santos
Laboratório de Comportamento e Ecologia de Insetos Sociais. Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Bandeirantes, 3900. CEP 14040-901. Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
PLoS One. 2015 Dec 29;10(12):e0145070. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145070. eCollection 2015.
Recent studies have investigated the composition of compounds that cover the cuticle in social insects, but few studies have focused on solitary bees. Cuticular hydrocarbons may provide a tool for chemotaxonomy, and perhaps they can be used as a complement to morphology and genetic characters in phylogenetic studies. Orchid bees (Tribe Euglossini) are a highly diverse group of Neotropical bees with more than 200 species. Here, the cuticular hydrocarbons of 17 species were identified and statistical analysis revealed 108 compounds, which allowed for the taxonomic classification according to the genera. The most significant compounds discriminating the four genera were (Z)-9-pentacosene, (Z,Z)-pentatriacontene-3, (Z)-9-tricosene, and (Z)-9-heptacosene. The analyses demonstrated the potential use of CHCs to identify different species.
最近的研究调查了覆盖群居昆虫表皮的化合物组成，但很少有研究关注独居蜜蜂。表皮碳氢化合物可能为化学分类学提供一种工具，也许它们可以用作系统发育研究中形态学和遗传特征的补充。兰花蜂（Euglossini族）是新热带界蜜蜂中高度多样化的一类，有200多种。在此，鉴定了17种兰花蜂的表皮碳氢化合物，统计分析揭示了108种化合物，这使得能够根据属进行分类。区分这四个属的最显著化合物是（Z）-9-二十五碳烯、（Z,Z）-三十五碳三烯-3、（Z）-9-二十三碳烯和（Z）-9-二十七碳烯。分析表明表皮碳氢化合物在识别不同物种方面具有潜在用途。
