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Epidermal glands in the abdomen of a basal ant Dinoponera lucida (Formicidae: Ponerinae)

✍ Scribed by José Eduardo Serrão; Rafael Cunha A. Castro; José Cola Zanuncio; Cléa Santos Ferreira Mariano; Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie

Book ID
102334190
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
227 KB
Volume
72
Category
Article
ISSN
1059-910X

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The basal ant Dinoponera (Hymenoptera: Ponerinae) has lost the morphologic queen caste so that all females may be potential reproductive individuals, and the nestmate recognition results from cuticular hydrocarbons cues. However, data about the origin of that substance in Ponerinae ants are scarce. This study reports the occurrence of epidermal glands in the abdomen of the ant Dinoponera lucida. In this ant, the epidermis of the abdominal sternites has tall cells with well‐developed nucleus contrasting with flattened and collapsed epidermis in the tergites, suggesting a glandular function in the epidermis of the sternites. The possible role of the glandular epidermis in the synthesis of cuticular hydrocarbons for the nestmate recognition is discussed. Microsc. Res. Tech., 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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## Abstract Morphology of the antennae of the female workers of the ponerine ant __Dinoponera lucida__ was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. In several antennomers, we found secretory gland cells of class I and III. Class III gland cells release their secretion through single pore