Mating behaviour and behavioural ecology of a Predatory Wasp,Symmorphus allobrogus (de Saussure) (Hymenoptera: Eumeninae) |
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| Authors: | Showket Ahmad Dar Samy Sayed Mohamed El-Sharnouby Muneer Ahmad Sofi Mudasir Hassan Rizwan Rashid Zahoor Ahmad Dar Sajad Hussain Mir Sayed-Ashraf Elarrnaouty Saad HD Masry Ivana Tlak Gajger |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Entomology, KVK- Kargil-II (Zanskar), Ladakh Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India;2. Department of Science and Technology, University College-Ranyah, Taif University, B.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia;3. Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia;4. Department of Entomology, Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops (MRCFC) Khudwani, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India;5. Agriculture Extension Officer. Department of Agriculture, Jammu and Kashmir, India;6. Division of Vegetable Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India;7. Dryland Agricultural Research Station, Rangreth, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India;8. Department of Entomology, FOA-Wadura Sopore, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar India;9. Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt;10. Department of Plant Protection and Biomolecular Diagnosis, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute (ALCRI), City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, New Borg El-Arab City, P.O. Box 21934 Alexandria, Egypt;11. Research and Development Division, ADAFSA, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates;12. Department for Biology and Pathology of Fishes and Bees, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia |
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| Abstract: | This paper represents an attempt to investigate the mating behaviour of Symmorphus allobrogus, explaining the willingness of male to mount and copulate. The male displays including mode and frequency of antennation and position while copulating, the displays further comprises of intensity and frequency of rejecting behaviour. The presence of the male’s copulatory and postcopulatory courtship studies, understands the maintenance of monandry. The wasp has numerous secondary sexual characters, and the mating behaviour follows a phyletic and the specific sexual mating characters in context of sexual selection. The duration of mating phases and the number of male antennation series during precopulatory, copulatory and postcopulatory phases of mounting, differs significantly. Mating success depends mostly on the activities of male in the premounting phase and the behaviour of both sexes has a roughly equal importance for it in precopulatory phase. While during copulation, activity of male has little influence on its duration; however, behaviour of female has crucial effect, inducing its earlier termination. |
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| Keywords: | Mating Behaviour Behavioural Ecology Predatory Wasp |
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