- monometrosis
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see haplometrosis.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
monometrosis
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haplometrosis — n. [Gr. haplos, single; metros, mother] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Hymenoptera, the founding of a new colony by a single fertilized, egg laying queen; monometrosis … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
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
