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dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T13:26:04Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T13:26:04Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-30
dc.identifier.citationCorbin LA-J, Awde DN, Richards MH (2021) Phenological and social characterization of three Lasioglossum (Dialictus) species inferred from long-term trapping collections. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 88: 17–38.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/15649
dc.description.abstractDetailed social and phenological data collected from nesting aggregations exist for relatively few sweat bee species because nesting aggregations are rarely found in large numbers, even when local populations are highly abundant. This limits researchers’ abilities to assess the social status of many species, which in turn, limits our ability to trace the sequence of evolutionary steps between alternative social states. To address this problem, we demonstrate the utility of rehydrated, pinned specimens from pan trap and netting collections for generating inferences about the phenology and social status of a well-studied sweat bee species, Lasioglossum (Dialictus) laevissimum. A detailed comparison of phenology and reproductive traits, between pinned specimens and those in a previous nesting study, produced similar results for bivoltine foraging activity and eusocial colony organization typical in this species. We then used pinned specimens from monitoring studies to describe, for the first time, the foraging phenology and social behaviour of two additional Dialictus species, L. hitchensi and L. ellisiae. Both L. hitchensi and L. ellisiae each exhibited two peaks in abundance during their breeding seasons, indicating two periods of foraging activity, which correspond to provisioning of spring and summer broods. Differences in body size, wear, and ovarian development of spring and summer females indicated that L. hitchensi is most likely eusocial, while L. ellisiae is either solitary or communal. This study demonstrates that analyses of specimens obtained from flower and pan trap collections can be used for assessing the phenology and social organization of temperate sweat bees in the absence of nesting data. The phenological and social lability of many sweat bee species make them ideal for studying geographic and temporal variability in sociality, and analyses of pan trap collections can make these studies possible when direct observations are impossible.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Hymenoptera Researchen_US
dc.subjectEusocialityen_US
dc.subjectpan trapsen_US
dc.subjectsocial reversalen_US
dc.subjectsolitaryen_US
dc.subjectsweat beesen_US
dc.titlePhenological and social characterization of three Lasioglossum (Dialictus) species inferred from long-term trapping collectionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3897/jhr.88.73220
refterms.dateFOA2022-03-10T13:26:04Z


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