Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

New structural aspects of the Dufour's and venom glands in social insects

  • Kurze Originalmitteilungen
  • Published:
Naturwissenschaften Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Literatur

  1. Bettini, S. (ed.): Arthropod Venoms. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer 1978

    Google Scholar 

  2. Carlet, G.: Ann. Sci. nat. (Zool.) 9, 1 (1890)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Robertson, P.L.: Aust. J. Zool. 16, 133 (1968); Maschwitz, U., Kloft, W., in: Venomous Animals and their Venoms (Bücherl, W., Buckley, E.E., eds.). New York-London: Academic Press 1971; Dufour's gland opening is here correctly described outside the sting base in the Vespidae, but incorrectly inside it in the Apidae

    Google Scholar 

  4. Schlusche, M.: Zool. Jb. (Anat.) 61, 77 (1936); Snodgrass, R.E.: Anatomy of the Honey Bee. Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock 1956; de Lello, E.: J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 49, 85 (1976)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Forel, A.: Z. Wiss. Zool. 30, 28 (1878); Janet, C.: Etudes sur les Fourmis, les Guêpes et les Abeilles, Note 17. Paris: Carré & Naud 1898

    Google Scholar 

  6. Billen, J.P.J.: Entomol. Gener. 11, 165 (1986)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Ritter, F.J., et al.: Tetrahedron Lett. 30, 2617 (1977); Vander Meer, R.K., Williams, F.D., Lofgren, C.S.: ibid. 22, 1651 (1981)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Hölldobler, B., Wüst, M.: Z. Tierphysiol. 32, 1 (1973)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Attygalle, A.B., Morgan, E.D.: Chem. Soc. Rev. 13, 245 (1984)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Hefetz, A., et al.: Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 61 B, 129 (1978); Norden, B., et al.: Science 207, 1095 (1980); Cane, J.H.: J. Chem. Ecol. 7, 403 (1981)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Zoological Institute, University of Leuven, B-3000, Leuven

    J. P. J. Billen

  2. Dept. SBM, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, B-3610, Diepenbeek

    J. P. J. Billen

Authors
  1. J. P. J. Billen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

I wish to thank B. Hölldobler for reading the manuscript and the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research for a Senior Research Assistantship.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Billen, J.P.J. New structural aspects of the Dufour's and venom glands in social insects. Naturwissenschaften 74, 340–341 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00367931

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00367931

Keywords

Search

Navigation