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Evolution of the Multifunctional Mouthparts of Adult Vespidae

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Insect Mouthparts

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The morphology of mouthparts and their use in context with nutrition, nesting behaviour and brood provisioning are compared across various lineages of Vespidae. In the plesiomorphic state, adult wasps take up nectar and pollen with a short labiomaxillary complex; females construct subterranean nests with the mandibles, moisten hard soil with water collected using the glossa, and larvae are mass-provisioned with paralysed insect larvae which are gathered and transported by the mandibles. The evolution of nectar-feeding proboscises occurred multiple times in the Vespidae. The Masarinae evolved a bee-like life form and collect pollen to supply their larvae. Two lineages have evolved a proboscis composed of the glossa and paraglossa, or only the elongated glossa forms a food canal to imbibe nectar or water. The females of the taxon [Eumeninae + Raphiglossinae + Zethinae + Polistinae + Vespinae] feed on malaxated prey in addition to sugary fluids. Few representatives of the Eumeninae, the Raphiglossinae and some Zethinae evolved a proboscis composed of the elongated galeae, glossa and paraglossae. Tusk-like mandibles evolved in some male Eumeninae in the context of male-male competition. In the representatives of the [Raphiglossinae + Zethinae + Polistinae + Vespinae] the mandibles have adapted to processing plant material for nest construction. The short mouthparts of the social [Polistinae + Vespinae] also build paper nests and are used for trophallaxis.

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Gabriele Hellenschmidt kindly helped with the translation of French literature. Dominique Zimmermann provided access to the collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. We are grateful to Daniela Gruber from the electron microscopical laboratory (CIUS) and Brian Metscher (Department of Theoretical Biology) at the Faculty of Life Sciences (University of Vienna) who helped with CT imaging. We thank Andrea Spiegel for helpful comments and Annalie Melin for linguistic help.

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Mauss, V., Kuba, K., Krenn, H.W. (2019). Evolution of the Multifunctional Mouthparts of Adult Vespidae. In: Krenn, H. (eds) Insect Mouthparts. Zoological Monographs, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29654-4_14

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