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Eusociality (Gr**** εὖ eu "good" and social) is the
highest level of
organization of sociality. It is
defined by the
following characteristics: cooperative...
- The
highest degree of
sociality recognized by
sociobiologists is
eusociality. A
eusocial taxon is one that
exhibits overlapping adult generations, reproductive...
- nine)
evolutions of
eusociality within Hymenoptera.
Haplodiploidy is
neither necessary nor
sufficient for
eusociality. Some
eusocial species such as termites...
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Eusociality evolved repeatedly in
different orders of animals,
notably termites and the
Hymenoptera (the wasps, bees, and ants). This 'true sociality'...
- diverse,
cosmopolitan family of wasps,
including nearly all the
known eusocial wasps (such as
Polistes fuscatus,
Vespa orientalis, and Ves**** germanica)...
- with
other inferred eusociality origins. Thus, the
Halictinae are
believed to
model the
primitive eusociality of
advanced eusocial hymenopterans. Because...
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Hornets (insects in the
genus Vespa) are the
largest of the
eusocial wasps, and are
similar in
appearance to yellowjackets,
their close relatives. Some...
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Ropalidia marginata is an Old
World species of
paper wasp. It is
primitively eusocial, not
showing the same bias in
brood care seen in
other social insects with...
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species which are solitary, communal,
primitively eusocial, cleptoparasitic, or
socially parasitic.
Eusocial species may have
small colonies with only one...
- (cold-blooded) form of body
temperature regulation, as well as
exhibiting eusociality, a
complex social structure including a
reproductive division of labor...
