Trail communication in two Paratrechina species Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille) and Paratrechina vividula (Nylander, 1846) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Journal Article

• Magazine \ Newspaper: Egyptian journal of Zoology
• Issue Number: E
• Volume Number: 51
• Pages: 449-459

Publication Abstract

The hind gut of the worker of the two Paratrechina species is the source of the trail pheromone. In P. vividula, the poison gland secretion has an inhibitory effect but in P. longicornis it hasn’t. In P. lon gicornis and P. vividula, the optimum dose of the trail- following was found to be 1 gaster equivalent / 30 cm trail. The optimum dose lasting time could last for 105 minutes in both the two species.