Encyclopedia of Social Insects
Alain Lenoir Mis à jour 28-Sep-2021
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL INSECTS. A
project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)
Christopher K. Starr, editor
L'encyclopédie des insectes sociaux de Christopher Starr, chez Springer (2020).
Le sommaire :
Foreword – Raghavendra
Gadagkar
Introduction – Christopher K. Starr
Acropyga -- John
S. LaPolla jlapolla@towson.edu
Aculeate Hymenoptera: phylogeny and classification - Denis J. Brothers brothers@ukzn.ac.za
African honey bees -- Christian W.W. Pirk cwwpirk@zoology.up.ac.za
Aging -- Jürgen Heinze, Judith Korb & Boris Kramer juergen.heinze@ur.de
judith.korb@biologie.uni-freiburg.de b.h.kramer@rug.nl
Allodapine bees -- Michael P. Schwarz & Simon M. Tierney michael.schwarz@flinders.edu.au
S.Tierney@westernsydney.edu.au
Allomones – Abdullahi A. Yusuf aayusuf@zoology.up.ac.za
Aneuretus simoni – R.K. Sriyani Dias sriyanidiasandroid@gmail.com
Ant gardens -– Bruno Corbara
bruno.corbara@univ-bpclermont.fr
Ant-hemiptera associations -- Elizabeth G. Pringle epringle@unr.edu
Ant mosaics – Nico Blüthgen bluethgen@bio.tu-darmstadt.de
Ant-plants: Epiphytic Rubiaceae – Guillaume Chomicki guillaume.chomicki@gmail.com
Ant-plants: Macaranga – Heike Feldhaar & Brigitte Fiala feldhaar@uni-bayreuth.de
fiala@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Ants: phylogeny and classification – Marek L. Borowiec, Corrie Moreau
& Christian Rabeling mborowiec@uidaho.ed , corrie.moreau@cornell.edu christian.rabeling@asu.edu
Apicotermitinae -- Yves Roisin
yroisin@ulb.ac.be
Apiculture -- David Tarpy drtarpy@ncsu.edu
Army ants -- Daniel Kronauer dkronauer@mail.rockefeller.edu
Azteca -- John T. Longino jacklongino@gmail.com
Bees: ecological roles
-- David W. Roubik roubikd@si.edu
Bees: phylogeny and classification -- Michael S. Engel, Claus Rasmussen &
Víctor H. González B. msengel@ku.edu alrunen@yahoo.com victorgonzab@gmail.com
Beeswax -- Ann Harman ahworkerb@aol.com
Biogeography of honey-
bees -- Deborah R. Smith debsmith@ku.edu
Brain development and brain evolution – Sean O’Donnell so356@drexel.edu
Brood – Eva Schultner eva.schultner@gmail.com
Brood-stimulation hypothesis -- Kaitlin M. Baudier kmbaudier@gmail.com
Bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) – Michael D. Breed -- michael.breed@colorado.edu
Bumble bees (Bombus) -- Dave Goulson D.Goulson@sussex.ac.uk
Cape honey bee –
Michael H. Allsopp allsoppm@arc.agric.za
Cardiocondyla (heart node ants) –– Jan Oettler joettler@gmail.com
Carpenter ants (Camponotus) -- Heike Feldhaar & Natacha Rossi,
feldhaar@uni-bayreuth.de natacha.rossi@univ-tlse3.fr
Caste -- Sean O’Donnell so356@drexel.edu
Caste differentiation: ants -– Marina N. Psalti & Romain Libbrecht
rlibbrecht@rockefeller.edu mapsalti@uni-mainz.de
Caste differentiation: genetic and epigenetic factors -- Graham Thompson &
Anna M. Chernyshova graham.thompson@uwo.ca achernys@uwo.ca
Caste differentiation:
honey bees -– Mário S. Cervoni & Klaus Hartfelder klaus@fmrp.usp.br,
cervoni@usp.br
Caste differentiation: Melipona -– Stefan Jarau sjarau@live.de
Caste: social wasps -– Fernando B. Noll, Marjorie da Silva, Lucas A. Oliveira
& Sidnei Mateus fernandobnoll@gmail.com
Caste: termites -- Yves Roisin
yroisin@ulb.ac.be
Caste: worker polyethism in social hymenoptera -– Elva J.H. Robinson &
Jennifer M. Jandt elva.robinson@york.ac.uk jenny.jandt@otago.ac.nz
Cataglyphis -- Serge Aron
& Rüdiger Wehner saron@ulb.ac.be, ruediger.wehner@zool.uzh.ch
Colony collapse disorder -– David R. Tarpy & Jeffery S. Pettis david_tarpy@ncsu.edu
pettis.jeff@gmail.com
Colony cycle -- Christopher K. Starr ckstarr@gmail.com
Colony defense -- Morgane Nouvian & Michael D. Breed morgane.nouvian@uni-konstanz.de
michael.breed@colorado.edu
Colony foundation – Christian Peeters
christian.peeters@upmc.fr
Communication: alarm -- Abraham Hefetz hefetz@ruppin.ac.il
Communication: honey bee dances -- Margaret J. Couvillon mjc@vt.edu
Communication: pheromones -- Margarita Orlova margaritaor@gmail.com
Communication: recruitment to resources -- Tomer J. Czaczkes tomer.czaczkes@biologie.uni-regensburg.de
Communication: vibrational and acoustic – Benjamin J. Taylor & Jennifer
Jandt btaylor@uwalumni.com jenny.jandt@otago.ac.nz
Conflicts of interest within colonies – Tom Wenseleers, Sarah Princen,
Ricardo Caliari Oliveira & Cintia Akemi Oi tom.wenseleers@bio.kuleuven.be
sarah.princen@kuleuven.be cintiaakemi.oi@kuleuven.be
Conservation of social insects – Sheila R. Colla collasheila@gmail.com
Cooperative transport -- Helen McCreery hmccreery@gmail.com
Corbiculate bees – Michael S. Engel & Claus Rasmussen msengel@ku.edu
alrunen@yahoo.com
Crematogaster -- Bonnie B. Blaimer bonnie_blaimer@ncsu.edu
Cubitermitinae – Guy Josens & Jean Deligne gjosens@ulb.ac.be jdeligne@skynet.be
Cuckoo bumble bees (Bombus (Psithyrus)) -- Stephen J. Martin s.j.martin@salford.ac.uk
Cuticular hydrocarbons -- Anne-Geneviève
Bagnères ag.bagneres@cefe.cnrs.fr
Dacetine ants -- Keiichi
Masuko wb5k-msk@asahi-net.or.jp
Diacamma -- Sumana Annagiri annagiri.sumana@gmail.com
Drywood termites (Kalotermitidae) -- Andrea Luchetti andrea.luchetti@unibo.it
Dwarf honey bees (Apis (Micrapis)) – Benjamin P. Oldroyd benjamin.oldroyd@sydney.edu.au
Eastern cavity-nesting
honey bees (Apis cerana and close relatives) -- Orawan Duangphakdee, Siriwat
Wongsiri & Preecha Rod-im orawan.dua@mail.kmutt.ac.th
Ecosystem engineers -- Henrique J. de Souza Jacques H.C. Delabie jacques.delabie@gmail.com
henriquejds@yahoo.com.br
Ecosystem services -- Manu Saunders & Romina Rader Manu.Saunders@une.edu.au
rrader@une.edu.au
Ectatomma – Jean-Paul Lachaud
jean-paul.lachaud@univ-tlse3.fr jlachaud@ecosur.mx
Emery’s rule -- Federico López-Osorio flopezosorio@amnh.org
Eusociality – Christopher K. Starr ckstarr@gmail.com
Extra-floral nectaries –- Michele Lanan mlanan@amnh.org
Fire ants (Solenopsis
in part) – Joshua R. King joshua.king@ucf.edu
Fossil social insects – Phillip Barden & Michael S. Engel barden@njit.edu
msengel@ku.edu
Fungus-farming ants (Attini in part) -- Ted R. Schultz schultz@si.edu
Fungus-growing termites (Macrotermitinae) –Johanna P.E.C. Darlington jpecd2@cam.ac.uk
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Genetics of social behavior
– Timothy Linksvayer tlinks@sas.upenn.edu
Genomics of social insects -- Amy L. Toth & Gene E. Robinson amytoth@iastate.edu
generobi@illinois.edu
Giant Amazonian ants (Dinoponera) – Justin O. Schmidt & William
L. Overal ponerine@dakotacom.net William.overal@gmail.com
Giant honey bees (Apis ((Megapis)) –- Benjamin P. Oldroyd benjamin.oldroyd@sydney.edu.au
Gregarious cockroaches – Michel-Olivier Laurent-Salazar, Sofia Bouchebti
& Mathieu Lihoreau michelolaurentsalazar@gmail.com
sofia.bouchebti@gmail.com mathieu.lihoreau@univ-tlse3.fr
Group selection -- Michael Bentley m.bentley@ucl.ac.uk michael.bentley@zoo.ox.uk
Guests of social insects – Thomas Parmentier Thomas.Parmentier@ugent.be
Halictus -- Laurence
Packer & Miriam H. Richards xeromelissa@mail.commrichards@brocku.ca
Haplodiploidy -– Patrick Kennedy patrick.c.kennedy@live.co.uk
Honey -- Gard Otis gotis@uoguelph.ca
Honey bee diseases and parasites -- Stephen J. Martin & Michael H. Allsopp
s.j.martin@salford.ac.uk allsoppm@arc.agric.za
Honeydew -- Michele Lanan mlanan@amnh.org
Hover wasps (Stenogastrinae) –- Jeremy P. Field J.P.Field@exeter.ac.uk
Hymenopteran venom apparatus -- Carlos E. Sarmiento cesarmientom@unal.edu.co
International Union for
the Study of Social Insects – Madeleine Beekman madeleine.beekman@sydney.edu.au
Intestinal symbionts -– Corrie Moreau corrie.moreau@cornell.edu
Introduced and invasive species – Heike Feldhaar & Lori Lach feldhaar@uni-bayreuth.de
lori.lach@jcu.edu.au
juvenile hormone -- Zachary Huang bees@msu.edu
Kin recognition -- Patrizia
d’Ettorre dettorre@leec.univ-paris13.fr
Kinship theory – Tomas Kay, Laurent Lehmann & Laurent Keller tomas.kay@unil.ch
laurent.lehmann@unil.ch laurent.keller@unil.ch
Large carpenter bees (Xylocopa)
-- Stephen L. Buchmann & Robert L. Minckley buchmann.stephen@gmail.com robert.minckley@rochester.edu
Lasioglossum –- Miriam H. Richards & Laurence Packer mrichards@brocku.ca
xeromelissa@mail.com
Lasius
— Martin Quque & Olivier Bles martin.quque@iphc.cnrs.fr olivier.bles@ulb.ac.be
Leptanillinae -- Keiichi Masuko wb5k-msk@asahi-net.or.jp
Leptogenys – Philipp Hoenle philipp.hoenle92@gmail.com
Leptothorax -- Jürgen Heinze juergen.heinze@ur.de
Linepithema -- Alex Wild alwild@myrmecos.net
Marauder ants (Carebara
in part) – Mark W. Moffett mark@doctorbugs.com
Mastotermes darwiniensis -- Nathan Lo nathan.lo@sydney.edu.au
Matabele ant (Megaponera analis) -- Erik Frank erik.frank@unil.ch
Megalopta -- Adam Smith adam_smith@gwu.edu
Meliponiculture – Javier Quezada-Euán & Denise de Araujo Alves
javier.quezada@correo.uady.mx daalves@usp.br
Mischocyttarus -- Sean O’Donnell so356@drexel.edu
Monomorium -- Luigi Pontieri & Timothy A. Linksvayer lpontieri@bio.ku.dk
tlinks@sas.upenn.edu
Myrmeciine ants –– Robert W. Taylor bob.taylor@homemail.com.au
Myrmecomorphy -- Fadia Sara Ceccarelli & Paula E. Cushing saracecca@hotmail.com
paula.cushing@dmns.org
Nasute termites (Nasutitermitinae)
– Reginaldo Constantino constant@unb.br
Nectar -- Susan W. Nicolson swnicolson@zoology.up.ac.za
Nest homeostasis –- Samuel N. Beshers beshers@illinois.edu
Nest relocation – Sarah E. Bengston & Terry McGlynn sbengsto@gmail.com
terry.mcglynn@gmail.com
Nest structure: honey bees – Michael Smith smithleemichael@gmail.com
Nest structure: social wasps –- John. W. Wenzel WenzelJ@carnegiemnh.org
Nest structure: stingless bees -- David W. Roubik roubikd@si.edu
Nest structure: termites – Christian Jost
christian.jost@univ-tlse3.fr
Nesting associations among social insects -- Robert L. Jeanne rljeanne@wisc.edu
Nonflying reproductives in ants – Christian Peeters christian.peeters@upmc.fr
Nutrition – Stéphane Kraus, Tamara Gómez-Moracho & Mathieu
Lihoreau kraus.stephane.05@gmail.com tamara.gomez@univ-tlse3.fr
mathieu.lihoreau@univ-tlse3.fr
Optimal foraging -- Graham
Pyke & Christopher K Starr Graham.Pyke@mq.edu.au ckstarr@gmail.com
Orchid bees (Euglossini) – Luiz R. R. Faria & Gabriel A.R. Melo nunofariajr@gmail.com
garmelo@ufpr.br
Orientation by central-place foragers -– Ajay Narendra ajay.narendra@mq.edu.au
Paper wasps (Polistes)
-- Seirian Sumner seirian.sumner@gmail.com
Parapolybia -- Sô. Yamane yamane_soichi@ybb.ne.jp
Parasites and pathogens -- Paul Schmid-Hempel & Sylvia Cremer paul.schmid-hempel@env.ethz.ch
Sylvia.Cremer@ist.ac.at
Parthenogenesis -- Claudie Doums
claudie.doums@ephe.sorbonne.fr
Pheidole -- Alexandre C. Ferreira alexandrefrreira@gmail.com
Platythyrea -- Abel Bernadou Abel.Bernadou@ur.de
Pollination and agriculture -- Peter Kevan & Patrícia N. Silva pkevan@uoguelph.ca
patriciabiene@gmail.com
Polydomy (polycaly) – Liselotte Sundström liselotte.sundstrom@helsinki.fi
Polyrhachis (spiny ants) -– Simon Robson simon.robson@sydney.edu.au
Poneroid ants – Roberto Keller & Christian
Peeters christian.peeters@upmc.fr roberto.kellerperez@gmail.com
Presocial insects -- James T. Costa costa@email.wcu.edu
Propolis – Marla Spivak & Michael Simone-Finstrom spiva001@umn.edu
Michael.SimoneFinstrom@usda.gov
Pseudomyrmecinae – Philip S. Ward psward@ucdavis.edu
Rhytidoponera
-- Robert Taylor bob.taylor@homemail.com.au
Ropalidia – Raghavendra Gadagkar ragh@iisc.ac.in
Seed dispersal by ants
(myrmecochory) - Adam Devenish & Crisanto Gómez ajm.devenish@googlemail.com
Seed-harvesting ants - Blaine J. Cole & Diane C. Wiernasz bcole@uh.edu dwiernasz@uh.edu
Self-organization and stigmergy – Bertrand
Collignon & Claire Detrain cdetrain@ulb.ac.be bcollign@gmail.com
Sexual selection -- Boris Baer boris.bar@ucr.edu
Slave making in ants (dulosis) – Marah Stoldt & Susanne Foitzik mastoldt@uni-mainz.de
foitzik@uni-mainz.de
Small carpenter bees (Ceratina) - Sandra M. Rehan sandra.rehan@gmail.com
Social aphids -– Shigeyuki Aoki & Utako Kurosu oregma@rb3.so-net.ne.jp
ukurosu@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp
Social apoid wasps –- Gabriel A.R. Melo garmelo@ufpr.br
Social beetles -– Peter H.W. Biedermann & Jon Andreja Nuotclà
peter.biedermann@uni-wuerzburg.de jon.nuotcla@iee.unibe.ch
Social parasitism -- Christian Rabeling christian.rabeling@asu.edu
Social spiders -- Leticia Avilés laviles.ubczool@gmail.com
Social stomach -– István Karsai & Thomas Schmickl karsai@etsu.edu
thomas.schmickl@uni-graz.at
Sperm competition -- Boris Baer boris.bar@ucr.edu
Sting autotomy -– Christopher K. Starr & Carlos E. Sarmiento ckstarr@gmail.com
cesarmientom@unal.edu.co
Stylotermitidae -– Hou-Feng Li houfeng@dragon.nchu.edu.tw
Subterranean ants -- Mark Wong & Benoit Guénard
markwong.research@outlook.com zeroben@gmail.com
Subterranean termites (Rhinotermitidae) -- Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
& Edward Vargo ag.bagneres@cefe.cnrs.fr ed.vargo@tamu.edu
Super-colonies of ants -- Heikki Helanterä heikki.helantera@helsinki.fi
Superorganism concept -- Christopher K. Starr ckstarr@gmail.com
Swarm-founding wasps -- Robert L. Jeanne rljeanne@wisc.edu
Sweat bees (Halictidae) -– Miriam H. Richards & Laurence Packer mrichards@brocku.ca
xeromelissa@mail.com
Temnothorax --
Sarah Bengston, Daniel Charbonneau & Anna Dornhaus sbengsto@gmail.com charbonneau.daniel@gmail.com
dornhaus@email.arizona.edu
Termites -– Judith Korb judith.korb@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Termites as structural pests -– Nan-Yao Su nysu@ufl.edu
Termites: feeding syndromes -- Yves Roisin
yroisin@ulb.ac.be
Termites: phylogeny and classification -- Thomas
Bourguignon thomas.bourguignon@oist.jp
Tramp ants -– Scotty Yang & DeWayne D. Shoemaker ccyang@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp
dshoema2@tennessee.edu dewayne.shoemaker@utk.edu
Trophallaxis – Adria C. Leboeuf adrialeboeuf@gmail.com
Turtle ants (Cephalotes) -- Scott Powell scottpowell@email.gwu.edu
Urban social insects – Clint Penick clintpenick@gmail.com
Venom – Justin O.
Schmidt ponerine@dakotacom.net
Vespinae –– Sôichi Yamane & Seiki Yamane yamane_soichi@ybb.ne.jp
mayiopa0@gmail.com
Weaver ants (Oecophylla)
– Joachim Offenberg joaf@bios.au.dk
Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) – Rachael Bonoan & Philip
T. Starks Rachael.Bonoan@tufts.edu philip.starks@tufts.edu
Wood ants (Formica rufa species-group) -– Elva J.H. Robinson
& Jenni Stockan ejhr500@yccsa.org jenni.stockan@hutton.ac.uk
Wood-feeding cockroaches (Cryptocercus) – Christine A. Nalepa
cnalepa@ncsu.edu
Worker policing – Tom Wenseleers, Cintia Akemi Oi & Ricardo Caliari
Oliveira tom.wenseleers@bio.kuleuven.be cintiaakemi.oi@kuleuven.be ricardo.caliarioliveira@kuleuven.be
Worker polymorphism: ants -- Mathieu Molet
mathieu.molet@upmc.fr mathieu.molet@gmail.com mathieu.molet@sorbonne-universite.fr