Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Baker, T. Gerald
Committee Member
Collison, H. Clarence
Committee Member
Ma, W.K. Peter
Committee Member
Brown, L. Richard
Date of Degree
5-2-2009
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Entomology and Plant Pathology
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Abstract
Little information regarding the flagellar sensilla of the Vespidae, particularly Polistes, exists in the literature. A variety of social behaviors in vespids, such as alarm pheromones and pheromone response, involve intraspecific communication. Therefore, an understanding of sensory receptors in social wasps would benefit further behavioral and neurological studies of wasps. The flagellar sensilla of female paper wasps Polistes dorsalis, Polistes metricus, and the solitary wasp Monobia quadridens were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. A number of olfactory receptors, contact chemoreceptors, and mechanoreceptors were named and described. Possible functions of these receptors were proposed based on morphological and ultrastructural data for each type of sensillum. Counts of several sensilla were made over the whole of five flagellae of each species and results were compared among species, flagellomeres, medial and lateral surfaces.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15150
Recommended Citation
McCaskill, Andrew Oliver, "Flagellar sensilla of females of selected species of Vespidae (Hymenoptera)" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 2307.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2307