Exocrine chemistry of the myrmicine ant Zacryptocerus pusillus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

摘要

Minor workers of the ant Zacryptocerus pusillus have unusual exocrine secretions in both their mandibular and Dufour glands. The mandibular glands contain a 3:1 mixture of 4-heptanone and 4-heptanol, a mixture found only in the related species Z. varians. The Dufour gland contains a mixture of 13 aldehydes from C(9) to C(18), not previously encountered in ant secretions. The venom glands gave variable results with only nonanal present consistently. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 63:11-14, 2006. (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.