PINTO, Nozor Paulo Outeiro. Case study: the re-utilization of abandoned nest cells of Polistes (Aphanilopterus) simillimus Zikán, 1951 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) by Tetrapedia (Tetrapedia) diversipes Klug, 1810 (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Apinae). []. , 7, 2, pp.67-74. ISSN 1517-2805.

Species of solitary wasps and bees may re-utilize holes of old nests of Hymenoptera as well as cells made of vegetable fibers or mud in abandoned nests, and adjust them to their own offsprings. This simple and efficient nesting strategy involves smaller effort, time and risk of predation to reutilizer female. The social wasp Polistes simillimus makes nests of vegetable fibers which are attached to a substract by a pedicel leaving the combs exposed. Nests of the solitary bee Tetrapedia diversipes have been found in holes in wood, trap nests and their nests may be associated to cells of old nests of others Hymenoptera. In a abandoned nest of P. simillimus nest cells re-utilized for nesting T. (T.) diversipes was found. This is the first report of XXXX reutilization.

: Nesting behavior; Wasps; Bees; Polistes simillimus; Tetrapedia (Tetrapedia) diversipes.

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