Estudo comparativo da área ocupada pelos corpos pedunculados no cérebro de duas espécies de abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

Comparative study of the area occupied by the corpora pedunculata in the brain of two bee species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

Hymenoptera; Apoidea; corpora pedunculata; glomeruli; castes; behavior

Estudo comparativo da área ocupada pelos corpos pedunculados no cérebro de duas espécies de abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

Comparative study of the area occupied by the corpora pedunculata in the brain of two bee species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

Fábio Camargo Abdalla^I; Carminda da Cruz-Landim^II

^IFinanciado pelo CNPq

^IIDepartamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências de Rio Claro, Universidade Estadual Paulista. Caixa Postal 199, 13500 Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil. E-mail: [e-mail]

ABSTRACT

The present study compare the size of the corpora pedunculata (mushroom bodies) of Exomalopsis aureopilosa a quasi-social specie and Apis mellifera a eusocial specie of bees. The aim was to correlate the developmental degree of such structures with the behavior complexity. The results show that the female specimens of both species have the corpora pedunculata with same relative size. However the area occupied by the neurones cellular bodies (glomeruli) is greater in the workers of A. mellifera. In other way in E. aureopilosa the total size of the corpora pedunculata is larger in females, but the glomeruli area is relatively larger in the male.

Key words: Hymenoptera, Apoidea, corpora pedunculata, glomeruli, castes, behavior

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Recebido em 07.VI.1996; aceito em 28.XII.1996.

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Datas de Publicação

• Publicação nesta coleção
  13 Jul 2009
• Data do Fascículo
  1996

Histórico

• Aceito
  28 Dez 1996
• Recebido
  07 Jun 1996