Symposia Abstract

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 1
Speakers	Abstract
Sarah Elise Aamidor	“Stranger things” Gynandromorphs and Androgenesis in honey bees Apis mellifera
Ryutaro Suzuki	Expression and function analysis of epigenetics-related genes during soldier differentiation in Zootermopsis nevadensis
Ryohei Suzuki	Identification and expression patterns of odorant binding proteins in the termite Reticulitermes speratus
Fábio Oliveira Barbin	MicroRNAs, potential coordinators of the insulin pathway and the aging process of Apis mellifera
Walsh	The genetic basis of behavioral variation in the pharaoh ant
Hajime Yaguchi	Transcriptomic signatures during soldier differentiation through the regulation of social interactions in termites
Angel Roberto Barchuk	Hormonal control and target genes of ftz-f1 expression in the honeybee Apis mellifera
Elaine Aparecida Françoso	Numts and heteroplasmy disrupting mitochondrial markers on evolutionary studies
Renata Soares Borba	Investigating colony-level health traits in Canada’s honey bee population
Eléonore Genzoni	Transcriptomic bases of caste determination in ants
Franciene Rabiço Oliveira	Analysis of the transcription fator Zelda along the development of Apis mellifera
Anna M Chernyshova	Molecular signatures of kin selection: Are sterile caste-associated genes nearly neutral?
Matheus Pedrino Gonçalves	From Heterotermes tenuis (Rhinotermitidae) caste transcriptomes to alpha-amylase heterologous expression
Lucas Trevisoli Agostini	Reproductive capacity evaluation of honeybees workers (Apis mellifera) in single-cohort model colony
PRASHANT WAIKER	ESTIMATION OF GENOMIC RECOMBINATION RATES OF TERMITES
Luana Bataglia	Honeybee epitranscriptome machinery and its plasticity in relation to aging, nutrition and tissues

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 2
Speakers	Abstract
Jonas Gall Berner Schultz Madsen	The effect of neurotoxin drugs on the social behavior in Monomorium pharaonis ants
Tobias van Elst	Facultative polyandry, polygyny and worker reproduction in Lasius fuliginosus
Shinya Takahashi	Simultaneous Automatic Tracking of Honeybee Dancers’ and Their Followers’ Walking Trajectories Using Image Processing
Andrew Taylor Burchill	Collective transport up vertical surfaces in the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina
Gema Trigos-Peral	Personality traits and task performance in Camponotus vagus ants
Andrea Marina Alma	BETWEEN INEFFICIENCY AND INTERFERENCE: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROBLEM RESOLUTIONS IN LEAF-CUTTING ANTS
João Marcelo Robazzi Bignelli Valente Aguiar	A pollinators’ report on odorant dominance in deceptive orchid’s fragrances
Daniella C. Prince	Visually guided homing in an understory-dwelling twig ant
Kaleigh Fisher	Three is the magic number: disentangling socially-organized gustation in bumble bees using three worker micro-colonies
Rafael Carvalho da Silva	Chemical cues do not reflect reproductive dominance in early stages of Mischocyttarus wasp colonies
Meghan Barrett	Caste Differences in the Mushroom Bodies of Swarm-Founding Paper Wasps (Vespidae: Epiponini)
Jaqueline Eterna Batista	THE RELIABILITY OF BIOASSAYS: THE INTEGRATION OF CHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR IN NESTMATE RECOGNITION ASSAYS
Theo Mota	Visual discrimination transfer and modulation by biogenic amines in honey bees
Felix Schilcher	Antagonistic functions of the biogenic amines octopamine and tyramine on honeybee vision
Alejandro Gustavo Farji-Brener	Effect of terrain structure on food transport in the ant Pheidole boruca
Hiroyuki Ai	Stopwatch for measuring the waggling duration: putative encoding mechanism of distance information in the honeybee
Stefan Michael Popp	The Influence of home range markings on the search behavior of ants
Zhengwei Wang	An alkaloid in toxic nectar alters olfactory learning differently between sympatric and introduced honey bees
Felipe Marcel Neves	Recurrence analysis of ant activity oscillations in different densities
Duane M. Jackson	Factors influencing aggressive encounter between subterranean termites and free moving and restrained fire ants
Hideto Yoshimura	Photoperiod functions as a major cue for caste-fate determination in a paper wasp
Amalie Strange	Stressing out the honeybee blood-brain barrier
Lucas Amaral Oliveira	DIVERSITY OF CUTICULAR PROFILES IN EIGHT GENERA OF NEOTROPICAL SWARM-FOUNDING WASPS (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE: EPIPONINI)
Tianfei Peng	Age- and daytime affect octopamine and dopamine receptor expression in the mushroom bodies of honeybee foragers
James C. Nieh	The scent of poison: alarm, venom, and honey bee olfactory eavesdropping
Joseph L Woodgate	How do bees develop complex multi-destination foraging routes?
Mark A. Janowiecki	Inter- and intra-specific colony interactions in subterranean termites, Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Ryan James Leonard	Acute air pollution exposure impairs olfactory learning and recognition
Ravindra Palavalli-Nettimi	Miniaturisation in ants affects their vision and visual navigation
Melissa Linn	Do floral forces affect flower choice in bumblebees?
Joanna Chen Hsuan Chang	Network structure and risk analysis in turtle ant nest choice
Amanda Prato da Silva	Dufour’s gland compounds of Polybia occidentalis wasps change with hormone treatment modifying workers’ behavior
Lohan Claudio Abreu Valadares	Collective behavior during colony emigrations of leaf cutter ants
Lisa Eigil Brandenborg	Anatomical and gene expression changes in brain during transition from virgin gyne to mated queen
Markus Thamm	Circular RNAs in honeybees
Julia Mariette	Sexual communication in honeybees (Apis mellifera): functional study of drone olfactory receptors expressed in Drosophila olfactory neurons
Patricia J. Folgarait	Acromyrmex leaf-cutter ants as pests: aggression and cuticular hydrocarbons
Melissa Linn	The role of octopamine and dopamine signalling for social learning in honeybees
Ronara de Souza Ferreira Châline	Spatial dynamics of colony distribution and nest emigration in the ponerinae ant Neoponera verenae
Elizabeth Clifton	Cooperative fighting in the termite Nasutitermes corniger: a test of Lanchester’s models of combat
Martin Giurfa	Asymmetric taste discrimination in the honeybee depends on taste similarity and hedonic value
Simone Monika Glaser	Information-use strategy affects costs and benefits of foraging in ants with tandem recruitment (Temnothorax nylanderi)
Og Francisco Fonseca de Souza	Tympanic arenas for assays on termite vibroacoustic signalling
Vincent Jean Louis Fourcassié	Does contact rate on foraging trails modulate recruitment in leaf-cutting ants?
Giacomo Alciatore	Unravelling the effects of group composition on individual and collective behavior in a clonal ant
Fernando Ribeiro Sujimoto	Sensilla, polymorphism and polyethism in leaf cutter ants
Flávio Camarota	Discovery and defense define the social foraging strategy of Neotropical arboreal ants
Antoine Wystrach	Insect navigation: the complex world and the simple eye
Harry Siviter	Context specific social learning in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)
Adam Khalife	Extreme morphological adaptations in Melissotarsus worker ants counterbalanced by flying queens
Eyal Privman	Gene expression profiles associated with communication skills in golden ants
Nathan Smith	Macronutrient regulation by the desert leafcutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor
Viet-Dai Dang	Insights into the queen discrimination behavior in the fire ant from worker antennal RNA profiling
Ricardo Caliari Oliveira	Hormonal pleiotropy helps maintain queen signal honesty in a highly eusocial wasp
Rafael Carvalho da Silva	Evidence of visual cues in the hierarchical dominance system in Mischocyttarus cerberus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
Leonardo Platania	PLASTICITY IN THE USE OF NESTMATE RECOGNITION CUES ALONG COLONY DEVELOPMENT IN POLISTES DOMINULA
Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo	Worker defensive behavior in the Neotropical termite Neocapritermes braziliensis (Isoptera, Termitidae, Termitinae)
Laura James	The molecular impacts of chronic pesticide exposure on bee learning and memory.
Laura (Angelika) Degirmenci	Molecular basis of differential sugar perception in honeybee workers
Haruna Fujioka	Ant circadian activity rhythms vary with social context and age
Stephen C. Pratt	Using robots to test hypotheses about cooperative transport in ants
Masaru K. Hojo	Appetitive learning and its exploitation in a lycaenid butterfly-ant mutualism
Ioulia Bespalova	Coordination of personal preference and behavior with colony needs in seed harvester ants.
Cassondra Vernier	Nestmate Recognition Cues Mature Via Socially-Regulated Ontogenetic Processes in the Honey Bee
Marah Stoldt	Learning genes identified in comparative brain transcriptome analysis of scouting and tandem-running in Temnothorax ants
Taro Fuchikawa	Neuronal circadian clock protein oscillates similarly in behaviorally rhythmic forager honeybees and in arrhythmic nurses
Joanito Liberti	Unravelling an unknown sexual conflict in the honeybee
Jan Šobotník	The function and evolution of snapping defence in termite soldiers
John Yohan Cho	Food vs. safety: The question for recruiters of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus
Felipe Pereira da Rocha	Decision-making in Pheidole oxyops Forel, 1908 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) facing different types of resources.
Paula Melisa Garrido	Study on synthetic acaricides and Nosema ceranae as drivers of pheromone and cuticular hydrocarbon alterations in honey bees
Rachel LeAnn Wells	The effects of Azteca trigona odor production on canopy odor composition and heterospecific ant behaviors
Eisuke Tasaki	Subterranean adaptation in termites: a low O2 and high CO2 condition enhances reproduction of queens
Felix Benjamin Oberhauser	How expectations affect value perception in an invertebrate
Matthew Ryan Boot	Context-dependent mutualist warns host before lethal sting
Karolina Kuszewska	Rebel workers in honeybee have tendency to become intraspecific reproductive parasite
Callum Kingwell	Reproductive biology and cuticular hydrocarbon chemistry of Euglossa hyacinthina.

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 3
Speakers	Abstract
Leonardo Dapporto	The interspecific nesting relationship of Paraponera clavata and Partamona testacea
Klaus Hartfelder	Social behavior, ovarian status and juvenile hormone titer in a nest-sharing casteless wasp, Zethus miniatus (Vespidae, Eumeninae)
Rohini Singh	Effects of Wolbachia on social traits and fitness in pharaoh ants
Mário Sérgio Cervoni	Redox-state and hypoxia gene expression associated with division of labor in honeybee workers
Gregory T. Chism	The influence of nest architecture on colony organization in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus
Benjamin Aaron Taylor	Caste plasticity in a social wasp
Sarah Chérasse	Impact of immune activation on stored sperm viability in ant queens
Corinne Tarantino	Trade-offs in locomotion performance across ecological contexts: turtle ant running speed in the canopy
Colin Michael Lynch	Stop and go: Exploring alternative mechanisms for division of labor in social insects
Rasmus Stenbak Larsen	Hairs distinguish castes and sexes: Identifying the early ontogenetic building blocks of a fungus-farming superorganism
Maya Saar	Genetically diverse harvester ant colonies are more efficient in nest maintenance and foraging
Ivelize Cunha Tannure Nascimento	Behavioral syndromes in a Neotropical Swarm-founding wasp, Asteloeca ujhelyii
Vanelize Janei	Age polyethism of queens and parental care of eggs in Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae)
Lorenzo Roberto Sgobaro Zanette	It pays to be fickle: dominance and behavioural types in a queenless ponerine ant
Hélio Soares Júnior	ECOLOGY AND FIELD BIOLOGY OF CAMPONOTUS LEYDIGI (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) IN CERRADO VEGETATION
Tarik Godoy Dangl Plaza	Are worker’s morphological characters enough to identify trophic groups in Termitidae?
Luana Leite Guimarães Santos	COMPLEMENTARY DEFENSE MECHANISM IN THE TWO GUARD PHENOTYPES OF THE STINGLESS BEE TETRAGONISCA ANGUSTULA
Alaina Hope Michaels	Comparing male and worker body sizes in the Common Eastern Bumble Bee to examine the benefit of diversity in social systems
Alice Caroline Séguret	Proximate mechanisms behind the reversal of the fecundity/longevity trade-off in a facultative eusocial orchid bee
Kevin Lee Haight	Increased investment in the defense of high-value offspring by a superorganism
Efrat Greenwald	Colony Entropy: Quantification of liquid food storage and mixing in ant colonies.
Carlos Martinez Ruiz	Signatures of socially antagonistic seleciton in the fire ant social chromosome
Riou Mizuno	Trophic egg feeding by queens of two non-army ant doryline genera Cerapachys and Yunodorylus.
Claire Detrain	Nest structure and collective behaviour in the red ant Myrmica rubra
Ryan Edward Brock	Social organisation of the Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum)
Raquel Divieso Roman Rodrigues	Tempo and mode of morphological evolution in the ant reproductive caste
Giovana Craveiro	Effects of narcosis on senescence parameters and expression of candidate genes in Apis mellifera workers
Chi-Chun Fang	Embryogenesis in Myrmicinae Ants exhibits features of short/intermediate germ-band development
José Javier G. Quezada-Euán	Sexual size dimorphism in stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Meliponini)

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 4
Speakers	Abstract
Enikő Csata	Parasite and Nutrition: how parasite infection influences macronutrient balancing in ants
Jessica Michelle Moran	Beeaware of disease Down Under: developing honey bee (Apis mellifera) disease diagnostics in Australia
Carlos Aguero	Colony response of the eastern subterranean termite to soilborne pathogens
Sandra Gabriele Mustafa	Aethina tumida: A social parasite of social bees living in matriarchy
Andres Arce	How do agricultural pesticides affect the bee microbiome?
Stephen Nilsson-Møller	Timing of individual and colony level disease defences in ants
Maki Inoue	Nosema (Microspordia: Nosematidae) infections associated with introduction of the European bumblebee in Japan
Jarkko Routtu	Transcriptomics of early Varroa infection in the Asian honey bee
Xing Ping Hu	Alternation of constitutive activities and production of inducible antibacterial activities in MDR-fed termite
Regula Schmid-Hempel	Parasite escape by recombination
Lílian Caesar	Viruses are not the cause of the annual Melipona quadrifasciata syndrome
Thomas Lesley Gillard	Artificial insemination techniques and sexually transmissible diseases in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Karina Antúnez	Influence of diet on social and individual immunity, and gut microbial community in honey bees
Kaira Wagoner	Chemical Communication and Improved Tools for Hygienic Selection in the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera
Tamara Gómez-Moracho	Collective dietary medication in bees
Veronica M. Sinotte	The aminergic and olfactory underpinnings of self-exclusion by infected ants
Shannon Holt	Synergistic effects of parasitism and pesticide exposure on honey bee (Apis mellifera) survival and immunity
Abigail A. Chapman	Processes for sample collection and discovery of biomarkers for complex behavioural traits in the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera L.
David James Phair	Group size matters: ant cleanliness is next to crowdedness
Hermógenes Fernández-Marín	Ecology and evolution of the use of antimicrobials in the public health system of fungus-farming ants
Paula Melisa Garrido	Dietary phytochemical increase vitellogenin expression and tolerance to sublethal concentration of coumaphos in honey bees
Irina Muntaabski	Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism and heteroplasmy in Varroa destructor populations from Apis mellifera colonies of Argentina
Anna Franschitz	Collective defenses against internal pathogen infections in ants

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 5
Speakers	Abstract
YULIANA YIMARA CHRISTOPHER HERRERA	Epidemiological traits of Escovopsis strains parasitizing the colonies of Apterostigma living in a sympatric population
Lucie Kesnerova	Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut
Mariane Ueda Vaz Ronque	Bacterial community of fungus-growing ants in Atlantic rainforest
Zachary Y. Huang	Transportation sensitizes honey bees to insecticides
Hiroyuki Shimoiji	Hidden diversity underground: ant- and nest-associated bacterial communities revealed by meta-genomic analyses
Belén Branchiccela	Microbiota and within nurse interactions are necessary for processing stored pollen for new born bees
María Natalia Lescano	The effect of refuse dumps of leaf-cutting ants on the physiology and fitness of primary consumers: a stoichiometric approach
Javier E. Ibarra-Isassi	Do ant traits respond to abiotic factors along broad environmental gradients?
Yudai Masuoka	A role of JH-Met signaling activity during soldier differentiation in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis
Anissa Cherisse Goss	Improving stress resistance in honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers through social manipulation
Quentin Willot	The transcriptomic response to heat stress of the Sahara silver ant: insights into thermal scavenging
Palesa Natasha Mothapo	Just the right size for the right seed: successful seed dispersal is associated with ant body size
Laure-Anne Poissonnier	Nutrition in termites: Effect of macronutrient ratio on intake, longevity, digging activity and gut bacteria
Alberto José Arab Olavarrieta	Microbial communities of the gut and nest of the litter-feeding termite Procornitermes araujoi (Syntermitinae)
Tomáš Větrovský	Analysis of symbiotic bacterial communities associated with wood feeding termites in Neotropics
David A. Donoso	Long-term equilibrium of tropical ant communities
Sean Gregor McGregor	Remote Control Brood: The Influence of nest spatial dynamics on ant social behaviour
Alejandro Betancourt Caicedo	GUILDS OF SOIL AND LEAF-LITTER ANTS IN A RESTORED LANDSCAPE IN FILANDIA-QUINDÍO: AN ECOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSE
István Elek Maák	The effects of global climate change on the species of the Formica rufa group in the mountains of Central-Europe
Diana Quintero Muñoz	Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccidea) in coffee systems, Villanueva , Popayán Cauca
Jan Martin Buellesbach	Desiccation resistance and climate adaptation: Conserved cuticular hydrocarbon signatures in invasive Argentine ant super colonies over vast geographic distances
Caswell Munyai	Ant thermal preference and behavioural dominance in a grassland
Ana Carolina Calheiros	Foraging ecology of the fungus-growing ant, Acromyrmex subterraneus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in cerrado vegetation
Veronika E. Mayer	Fungal symbionts in arboreal plant-ants
Madeleine Ostwald	Adaptive significance of alternative social strategies in a facultatively social carpenter bee (Xylocopa varipuncta)
Emma I Dietrich	Diet and environment determine bacterial community composition in a socially polymorphic spider.
Diego Fernando Domínguez Gordillo	Precipitation and temperature drives ant traits distribution along a altitudinal gradient
Jorgiane Benevenute Parish	Biosecurity implications associated with survival of fungal spores through the gut of honey bee workers
Petr Stiblik	The influence of termites on soil microbial communities along the land-use gradient in Peru
Rafael Rodrigues da Costa	Near-complete biomass decomposition in fungus-farming termites: Integrated symbiont management in space and time
Carrie Cottone	Efficacy of Trelona Compressed Termite Bait for Area-wide Control of Subterranean Termites in Historic Buildings in Mobile, AL
Eric Glenn Guidry	IIncipient Formosan subterranean Termite, Coptotermes formosanus (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) Colonies in a laboratory environment
Joanne D. Carnell	The prevalence of bumblebee pathogens in their hosts and the wider environment
Jigyasa Arora	Functional metagenomics sheds light on the gut microbiome evolution of 37 species of genus Microcerotermes
Cristian Luan Klunk	The role of body size and nesting strategy on ant resistance to environmental conditions
Amanda Rose Hale	The Role of gut microbiome plasticity in a specie's range
Patrik Soukup	Analysis of symbiotic fungal communities associated with three species of Neotropical termites.

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 6
Speakers	Abstract
Hélida Ferreira da Cunha	Cost benefit of not removing termite mounds in the pasture
Masashi Yoshimura	Surveillance system for invasive ants activated in Okinawa-jima Island in Japan
Marcela de Matos Barbosa	The diversity of stingless bees is affected by the proportion of Atlantic Rainforest cover
Francisco Garcia Bulle Bueno	Irreversible worker sterility in a stingless bee: ovary structure and oogenesis in Tetragonula carbonaria
NITIKA SHARMA	Do individuals of the primitively eusocial paper wasp Ropalidia marginata show non-random spatial organization on the nest?
Adriana Ortiz-Reyes	Evaluation of the biological activity of extracts obtained from bacteria against Atta cephalotes
Juan José Lagos-Oviedo	Elements composition analysis in mandibles of Neotropical social wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae)
Jamille Costa Veiga	Traumatic mating plugs corroborate single matings in a monogamous social bee tribe: or not!
David R. Nash	Patterns of rarity in social parasites, and their implications for conservation
Pnina Cohen	The demographic history of invasive fire ants
Elizabeth Jane Margaret Evesham	The impact of farmland management on the distribution of ant colonies
Flávia Cristina de Paula Freitas	Identification of sex determination cascade in stingless bees
Palesa Natasha Mothapo	Invasive ants in Africa?- we don't know much
Patsavee Utaipanon	Assessing honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony densities at landscape scales
Paloma Alvarez-Blanco	Quantification of defensive compounds in the Argentine ant: does supercolony matter?
Grzegorz Buczkowski	Invasive termites in a changing climate: a global perspective.
Pierre Andre Eyer	Inbreeding Tolerance as a Pre-adapted Trait for Invasion Success in the Invasive Ant Brachyponera chinensis
Luciano Costa	Flight distance and homing ability of Melipona fasciculata assessed by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
James Herndon	The white-shouldered bumble bee is the predominate nesting bumble bee in above-ground nest boxes
PLAZA ORTEGA VIANNY LIZHET	Post conflict in Colombia: An opportunity for the knowledge of the community of native bees in the Bota Caucana
James C Makinson	Winners and losers: Climate change and the changing fates of Asian honeybee species
Mateus Fajardo de Freitas Salviato Detoni	Long-term changes in the structure of an urban social wasp community
Madeleine Beekman	Vector-mediated viral transmission weeds out virulent viruses
Ryan Edward Brock	Diploid male production and colony demography in a recent bumblebee colonist (Bombus hypnorum)
Ash E. Samuelson	Urban land-use is linked to higher fitness in a key pollinator
Isabella Rodrigues Francatti	Workers aggression on male aggregations in a Brazilian stingless bee
Pablo Cavigliasso	Spatio-temporal use of blueberry fields by Bombus atratus (Hymenoptera:Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning
Kevin J. Loope	Weak nestmate discrimination behavior in native and invasive populations of a yellowjacket wasp (Vespula pensylvanica)
André Rodrigues de Souza	Colder environments may select for darker paper wasps
Weslly Franco	ANT SPECIES RICHNESS AND DIVERSITY (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) IN THE NATURAL GRASSLANDS OF PARANÁ, BRAZIL
Wilson França de Oliveira Neto	Reproductive dominance and patterns of food distribution among nestmates in the primitively eusocial wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus (Polistinae; Mischocytarinii)
Daniela Mayorga Churión	Polistes myersi predation repertory on Galleria mellonella larvae
David Rankin	Colony phenology in the native range of an ecologically damaging yellowjacket
Souvik Mandal	Ontogeny of familiarity with foraging landscape and foraging abilities in the tropical social wasp <i>Ropalidia marginata</i>

Symposia Posters for Symposia Group 7
Speakers	Abstract
Joice Paulo Constantini	WHO IS AFRAID OF APICOTEMITINAE (ISOPTERA: TERMITIDAE), THE MOST ABUNDANT TERMITE GROUP OF THE NEOTROPICS
Cigdem Ün	Transgenerational Effect of Rifampicin on Sperm Length in Cardiocondyla obscurior males
Kelsey Scheckel	A Test of Emery’s Rule: Ultimate causes of host specificity in a facultative ‘slave-making’ ant
Eduardo Gonçalves Paterson Fox	A Mature Discussion on the Larval Instars of Hymenoptera
Alexandre Casadei Ferreira	ADDITIONS TO THE HYPERDIVERSE ANT GENUS PHEIDOLE (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE: MYRMICINAE) TAXONOMY IN THE BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC FOREST
Martina Kuthanova	Global patterns of termite abundance
Lívia Pires do Prado	Integrati ve taxonomy of Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885 (Hymernoptera: Formicidae) for species groups delimitation
Natalia Maritza Ladino López	Towards a taxonomic revision of the ant genus Prionopelta Mayr, 1866 for the Neotropical region
Juliana Stephanie Galaschi Teixeira	Identification of Melipona species using geometric morphometrics and neural networks
Iago Bueno da Silva	Dynamics of ergatoid reproductives and development of microsatellite markers for Nasutitermes aquilinus (Isoptera: Termitidae)
Aline Machado Oliveira	TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE GENUS PROBOLOMYRMEX MAYR, 1901 (FORMICIDAE: PROCERATIINAE) FOR THE NEOTROPICAL REGION
Adriana Carolina Cuezzo	Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Neotropical nasutes genera (Isoptera, Termitidae), based on molecular evidence and worker gut characters
Fernando Barbosa Noll	A clasistic analysis of Neotropical swarm-founding wasps based on total evidence (Hymenoptera: (Vespidae: Epiponini)
Shaun Michael Broadley	Survey of Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Biodiversity in New Orleans, Louisiana
Rodolfo Bizarria Júnior	Escovopsis trichodermoides: a fungal antagonist associated with lower attine ant colonies
Amanda de Faria Santos	A dispersal route for Nasutitermes corniger (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Neotropical Region
Valeria Danae Palma Onetto	Labral gland in termites