2016
DOI: 10.3897/jhr.50.6870
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Contribution to the bionomics of the pollen wasp Quartinia canariensis Blüthgen, 1958 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain)

Abstract: Quartinia canariensis was recorded from three semidesertic sand habitats in Fuerteventura. All localities were sparsely covered by halophytic vegetation and characterized by large patches of flowering plants of Frankenia laevis (Frankeniaceae). Males and females were exclusively observed to visit flowers of Frankenia laevis. During flower visits the imagines often switched between nectar and pollen uptake. Pollen was consumed directly from the anthers or pollen uptake was indirect with pollen grains gathering … Show more

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“…This is similar to the nesting situation in Quartinia canariensis Blüthgen (Mauss and Müller 2016), the Afrotropical Quartinia vagepunctata (Gess and Gess 1992), nesting in a metre square area clear of plants that was surrounded by the forage plants, and Quartinia poecila von Schulthess (Gess and Gess 2010), nesting on the mound formed around the forage plant, a situation suspected by Gess and Gess (2010) to be common to some other Afrotropical species of Quartinia. Each nest of Q. major had its entrance to one side of a little stone, slightly embedded in the substrate, offering some protection to and a somewhat stable substrate for the burrow descending beneath it and which is identical with the nest location next to a stone or an earth clod, recorded for Q. vagepunctata (Gess and Gess 1992) whereas the nests of other species were found on bare ground (Gess 2009, Gess and Gess 2010, Mauss and Müller 2016 and those of seven species in sand-filled snail shells Gess 1999, Gess andGess 2008).…”
Section: Female Brood Carementioning
confidence: 71%
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“…This is similar to the nesting situation in Quartinia canariensis Blüthgen (Mauss and Müller 2016), the Afrotropical Quartinia vagepunctata (Gess and Gess 1992), nesting in a metre square area clear of plants that was surrounded by the forage plants, and Quartinia poecila von Schulthess (Gess and Gess 2010), nesting on the mound formed around the forage plant, a situation suspected by Gess and Gess (2010) to be common to some other Afrotropical species of Quartinia. Each nest of Q. major had its entrance to one side of a little stone, slightly embedded in the substrate, offering some protection to and a somewhat stable substrate for the burrow descending beneath it and which is identical with the nest location next to a stone or an earth clod, recorded for Q. vagepunctata (Gess and Gess 1992) whereas the nests of other species were found on bare ground (Gess 2009, Gess and Gess 2010, Mauss and Müller 2016 and those of seven species in sand-filled snail shells Gess 1999, Gess andGess 2008).…”
Section: Female Brood Carementioning
confidence: 71%
“…A short more or less vertical turret surmounting the nest entrance as in Quartinia major is also present in nests of Q. canariensis (Mauss and Müller 2016) and most Afrotropical Quartinia species (Gess and Gess 2010). The existence of a turret at the nest entrance is probably a plesiomorphic trait of Quartinia adopted from the ground pattern of the Masarinae (Mauss 2007).…”
Section: Female Brood Carementioning
confidence: 99%
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