Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volume 77 (4)

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Howard E. Evans: Known and Little-known Aspects of His Life on the Planet
Mary Jane West-Eberhard

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Use of Communal Nests by Male and Female Trachypus petiolatus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
William T. Wcislo, Hermógenes Fernández-Marín, and Juan Carlos Di Trani

The First Fossil Representative of the Wasp Genus Dolichurus, with a Review of Fossil Ampulacidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
Michael Ohl

The Cost of Queen Loss in the Social Wasp Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
 Joan E. Strassmann, Angelo Fortunato, Rita Cervo, Stefano Turillazzi, Jesse M. Damon, and David C. Queller

The Spider Wasps of Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Roy R. Snelling and Juan A. Torres

Pseudoscolia aequatoria New Species, the First Sub-Saharan Member of the Genus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae)
Michael A. Prentice and Wojciech J. Pulawski

Natural History and Behavior of a Japanese Parasocial Spider Wasp, Machaerothrix tsushimensis (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Akira Shimizu

Venom and the Good Life in Tarantula Hawks (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): How to Eat, Not be Eaten, and Live Long
Justin O. Schmidt

Reproductive Behavior of Ground Weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): Drumming Behavior, Nuptial Feeding, Post-copulatory Guarding and Maternal Care
Darryl T. Gwynne

Divergent Patterns of Nest Construction in Eusocial Wasps
Robert L. Jeanne and Andrew M. Bouwma

Intraspecific Nest Form Variation in Some Neotropical Swarm-founding Wasps of the Genus Parachartergus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini)
James H. Hunt and James M. Carpenter

Nesting Sites of the Paper Wasp Mischocyttarus collarellus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) in a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest
Elizabeth F. Smith

Caste Flexibility and Variation according to the Colony Cycle in the Swarm-founding Wasp, Parachartergus fraternus (Gribodo) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini) Sidnei Mateus, Fernando Barbosa Noll, and Ronaldo Zucchi

Annual and Social Variation in Foraging Effort of the Obligately Eusocial Sweat Bee, Halictus ligatus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
Miriam H. Richards

Variable Life-history and Emergence Patterns of the Pipe-organ Mud-daubing Wasp, Trypoxylon politum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)
H. Jane Brockmann

Tusked Males, Male Dimorphism, and Nesting Behavior in a Subsocial Afrotropical Wasp, Synagris cornuta, and Weapons and Dimorphism in the Genus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
Robert W. Longair

Nesting Behavior of Chlorion cyaneum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), a Predator of Cockroaches (Blattaria: Polyphagidae)
Allan W. Hook

Nesting Biology of the Solitary Wasp Pison argentatum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Borneo and the Phillippines
Christopher K. Starr

Biological Notes on Three Species of Giant Australian Mason Wasps, Abispa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
Robert W. Matthews and Janice R. Matthews

Nesting Biology of a New High Andean Bee, Anthophora walteri Gonzalez (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Anthophorini)
Victor H. Gonzalez and Francis Chavez

A Stingless Bee Nesting with a Paper Wasp (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Vespidae)
Claus Rasmussen

A Comparative Overview of Flower Visiting by Non-Apis Bees in the Semi-arid to Arid Areas of Southern Africa
Sarah K. Gess and Friedrich W. Gess

Composition of Pollen Loads of Megachile rotundata in Relation to Flower Diversity (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
Kevin M. O’Neill, Ruth P. O’Neill, Sue Blodgett and Jessica Fultz

Chubutolithes gaimanensis and Other Wasp Trace Fossils: Breaking through the Taphonomic Barrier
Jorge F. Genise and Gerardo Cladera

A New Species of Torymus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) Associated with Dactylopius (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae)
E. E. Grissell

Two New Species of Black Dasymutilla (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from Texas and California
Donald G. Manley and James P. Pitts

Revision of the New World Species of the Cleptoparasitic Pompilid Genus Irenangelus Schulz (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Lynn S. Kimsey and Marius S. Wasbauer

A Revision of the Afrotropical Species of the Wasp Genus Jugurtia de Saussure, 1854 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae)
Friedrich W. Gess

Ancistroceroides de Saussure, a Potter Wasp Genus New to the United States, with a New Key to the Genera of Eumeninae of America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
James M. Carpenter

Phylogenetic Analysis of New World Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) Using Morphology and Molecules
Kurt M. Pickett and John W. Wenzel

A New Species of Cerceris from Hispaniola, West Indies (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae)
Julio A. Genaro

Ammophila hevans Menke, a New Species from Southern South America with Taxonomic Notes on Similar Species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Sphecidae)
Arnold S. Menke

Caupolicana from Florida (Hymenoptera, Colletidae)
Charles D. Michener and Mark Deyrup

A New Species of Caupolicana s.str. from the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico, and a Key to North American Species of the Subgenus (Hymenoptera, Colletidae)
Carlos H. Vergara and Charles D. Michener

Protandrena evansi, a New Panurgine Bee from Chile (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)
Luisa Ruz and Elizabeth Chiappa

A New Group of Euryglossine Bees from Australia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae)
 Elizabeth M. Exley

Taxonomic and Behavioural Notes on Patagonian Xeromelissinae with the Description of a New Species (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
Laurence Packer

Fideliine Phylogeny and Classification Revisited (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
Michael S. Engel

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Apparent Stimulatory Function of Species-specific Male Genitalic Setae in Aelurus septentrionalis (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae)
William G. Eberhard

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