temporary pleometrosis

temporary pleometrosis
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In social insects, a colony in which two or more females share a nest that was founded by a single female; non-founding females do not cooperate in nest development, and later disperse and found individual colonies; see permanent pleometrosis.

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  • pleometrosis — n. [Gr. pleion, more; metros, mother] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) A colony containing two or more fertilized egglaying females (queens); social colony foundation; monometrosis; polygyny; pleometrotic a; see primarypleometrosis, periodical pleometrosis …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • periodical pleometrosis — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In social Hymenoptera, a colony founded by a group of queens, however, after emergence of the first workers, all but one female disperse; see secondary pleometrosis, temporary pleometrosis …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • haplometrotic — a; see temporary haplometrosis, pleometrosis …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

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