Recent studies of insect anatomy evince a trend towards a comprehensive and integrative
investigation of individual traits and their evolutionary relationships. The abdomen of ants …

The velvetbean caterpillar (Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner) has great economical interest as
it affects the soybean crop worldwide. This work describes the morphology of the hindgut in …

The aim of this study was to determine whether worker self-grooming, allogrooming, and
direct contact promotes the dispersal of substances among members of the colony. For this …

In social insects, nests are very important structures built to provide a protected microhabitat
for immature development and food storage and are the places where most interactions …

We conducted comparative morphological studies of the tract digestive of Cephalotes
atratus, C. clypeatus and C. pusillus, aiming at describing the relationships among these …

Objetivou-se identificar os dispersores de duas espécies de Melocactus, verificar o padrão
de liberação dos frutos, correlacionando-o com a remoção por frugívoros e variação térmica …

Neste trabalho são listadas as espécies de formigas de serrapilheira encontradas em
quatro ambientes localizados na região noroeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, a fim de …

The current study compared the toxicity of different concentrations of boric acid in adult
workers of Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with toxicological …

We investigated the changes in the behavioral repertoire over the course of life and
determined the life expectancy and entropy of workers of the ant Ectatomma vizottoi. Newly …

Given the physiological importance of the Malpighian tubules to homeostasis in ants, this
study aimed to characterize the enzymology, histology, histochemistry, and ultramorphology …