. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. val stages, whcdcri from . , ,. , , ,. T the nests of Pheidole in- but as there is no evidence of such habits, . stabiiis. (Original.)have placed them among the synceketes. As the Conopidae are known to be parasitic in the bodies of adultbees and wasps, it is not surprising to find that some of these flies alsoattack ants. Bates (1893) observed species of the genus Stylogasterhovering over Eciton armies in Brazil, and Townsend (1897) capturednumbers of three species of the same genus in Mexico, while they werefollowing an army of Ecit
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. val stages, whcdcri from . , ,. , , ,. T the nests of Pheidole in- but as there is no evidence of such habits, . stabiiis. (Original.)have placed them among the synceketes. As the Conopidae are known to be parasitic in the bodies of adultbees and wasps, it is not surprising to find that some of these flies alsoattack ants. Bates (1893) observed species of the genus Stylogasterhovering over Eciton armies in Brazil, and Townsend (1897) capturednumbers of three species of the same genus in Mexico, while they werefollowing an army of Eciton forcli. There can be little doubt thatthey lay their eggs on the bodies of the ants and that the larvae areentoparasitic. Among the entoparasites is also to be included a number of minuteHymenoptera of the families Braconidae, Chalcididae and Proctotru-pidae. The best known of these is the Braconid Elasnwsoiiia beroli-ncnse, which has been seen by Giraud (1871), Forel (1874), Pierre(1893), Olivier (1893), and Wasmann (18940) ovipositing on the. ANTS. bodu> of lor»iica, ( nut ponolns and Lusiits. The larva of the parasitedevelops in the ants Wasmann (1899) nas described andfigured two interesting Kuropean Jroctotrupids, Solenopsia the nest> of Solcnopsis , and Tetramopria aurocincta, fromthose of Tetraiiuiriiiin cespilitin. Solenopsia seems to mimic the Sole-nopsis workers and Tetnunopria is provided with golden trichomes andfor this reason is regarded by Wasmann as a true guest. Ashmead(1893) enumerates among American Bethylids four species oiPseudiso-hnieliinin (mandibulare, iiioiitainon, myrmecophilum and rufiientrc)as living in the nests of Formica and Camponotus. An exquisite, sub-apterous, purple, green and gold Asaphine Chalcidid, Phcidoloxcnitswlieeleri (Fig. 253), which lives in the nests of Phcidolc instabilis, isprobably also entoparasitic on the ants or their progeny during its larvalstages. Finally, we come to a number of ext
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