Revue d'Hyménoptérologie

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L'inquilinisme chez les bourdons

Patrick Lhomme
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Lhomme, P. (2009). L'inquilinisme chez les bourdons. Osmia, 3: 17-22. https://doi.org/10.47446/OSMIA3.6
Published (online) 2009

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Résumé
Chez les insectes sociaux, le coût important des soins donnés aux couvains a favorisé, au cours de l'évolution, l'apparition d'espèces tricheuses capable d'exploiter la force de travail des colonies pour faire élever leur progéniture. Chez les bourdons, de nombreuses espèces usurpent des colonies de manière facultative. Toutefois les espèces du sous-genre Psithyrus ne produisent pas de caste ouvrière et sont totalement dépendantes de leurs hôtes pour la survie de leurs sexués. L'auteur présente ici une revue des différentes adaptations et stratégies utilisées par ces bourdons inquilines pour pénétrer et exploiter le système social de leurs hôtes.

Mots-clefs
Inquilinisme, bourdons, Psithyrus, parasites sociaux

Title (translation)
Bumble Bees inquilinism

Abstract
In social insects, severe brood care costs have favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit workers services of conspecifics or heterospecifics. In Bumblebees, a lot of species use hosts facultatively as an alternative to care for their own brood, while Psithyrus species have lost their worker caste and are completely dependant on hosts to produce their sexuals. Here is an overview of the adaptations and strategies used by bumblebees inquilines to successfully enter and exploit host social systems.

Keywords
Inquilinism, bumble bees, Psithyrus, social parasites

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