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New exocrine glands in ants: the hypostomal gland and basitarsal gland in the genus Melissotarsus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |
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| Authors: | Bert Hölldobler Malu Obermayer Nicola J R Plowes Brian L Fisher |
| Institution: | 1. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874501, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA 2. Biozentrum (Zoologie II) der Universit?t Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 3. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA |
| Abstract: | Fisher and Robertson (Insect Soc 46: 78–83, 1999) discovered the production of silk-like secretions emerging from slit-shaped openings along the anterior margin of the ventral hypostoma of Melissotarsus ant workers. The current histological study describes a hitherto unknown hypostomal gland from which this silk-like substance originates. In addition, this study describes a new basitarsal gland in the three pairs of legs of Melissotarsus workers. |
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