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An insect is considered’ subsocial’ if one or both parents extend care to offspring beyond the egg stage (Michener, 1969; Wilson, 1971, p. 4). Advanced parental care or subsociality has evolved repeatedly in many major arthropod groups (Eickwort, 1981; Wilson, 1971, p. 120), including at least 11 insect orders (Orthoptera, Dermaptera, Psocoptera, Embioptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Thysanoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diplura and Lepidoptera; Choe, 1989).
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Windsor, D.M., Choe, J.C. (1994). Origins of parental care in chrysomelid beetles. In: Jolivet, P.H., Cox, M.L., Petitpierre, E. (eds) Novel aspects of the biology of Chrysomelidae. Series Entomologica, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1781-4_4
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