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kleptobiosis Zool.|ˌklɛptəʊbaɪˈəʊsɪs|
In quots. clepto-.
[f. Gr. κλέπτης thief, κλέπτειν to steal + βίωσις way of life.]
Among ants and certain other social insects, an association in which a small species feeds on the refuse of a neighbouring nest inhabited by a larger species, or robs returning workers of the host species of the food they are carrying. Hence ˌkleptobiˈotic a.
1901W. M. Wheeler in Amer. Naturalist XXXV. 516, I have therefore adopted the following headings... Cleptobiosis. Wasmann's ‘Diebsameisen’; first regular form of compound nest. Ibid. 529 All the known cleptobiotic ants are of minute size and of subterranean habits. 1927H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe Guests of Brit. Ants iii. 78 Ants exhibit a variety of associations, symbiotic, mutualistic, and parasitic... Such associations consist of—Cleptobiosis (originally used to denote thievery, now applied to brigandage by Wheeler); Lestobiosis [etc.]. 1971E. O. Wilson Insect Societies xix. 377/2 As a rule, cleptobiotic aculeates prey on only one or a very few species of other aculeates. Ibid. 381/2 Members of the melipomine genus Lestrimelitta do engage in nest robbing, or ‘cleptobiosis’. |