Proventriculus of Cephalotes ants: A structural and comparative analysis on its social importance among Neotropical ants.
Keywords:
Coleoptera, composição de famílias, Goiás, armadilha de Malaise, mata semicaducifólia, BrasilAbstract
The use of optic microscopy and scanning electron microscopy propitiated the comparative examination of the structure of the proventriculus bulb of Cephalotes atratus, C. clypeatus and C. pusillus. This portion of the digestive tract possesses highly sclerotized projections which act in the selection of victuals. This structure of the tract digestive was compared with others known species of ants and a dendrogram of Formicidae evaluated as complementary analysis. More details of the characteristics of this structure are described in this study.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The expontaneos submmition of the manuscript automaticaly implies in the cession of all patrimonial rights for the Journal of Neotropical Bilogy (RBN) after publication. The autor allow the right of first publication of the article to the RBN, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence.
There are garanties for the authors to the authorial and moral rights, for each one of the articles published by RBN, with permissions:
1. The use of article and contents for the education and researches.
2. The use of the article and their contents, linking to the Article on the web site of the RBN, allowing the divulgation on:
- institutional closed web (intranet).
- open access repositories.
3. Preparation and divulgation of the other publication derived from the article and its content, if there is citation of the original publication by RBN.
4. Make printed copies in small quatinties for personal use.
