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Science 11 August 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4355, pp. 541 - 543
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4355.541
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Proctodeal Feeding by Termitophilous Staphylinidae Associated with Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks)

RALPH W. HOWARD 1

1 Southern Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gulfport, Mississippi 39503

Trichopsenius depressus Le Conte, Xenistusa hexagonalis Seevers, and Philotermes howardi Kistner and Gut solicit and receive proctodeal and stomodeal fluids from their host, as well as engage in allogrooming with them. No other trophic behaviors were observed, suggesting that the beetles are completely integrated into the termite's trophic system.

Submitted on January 23, 1978
Revised on April 17, 1978

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