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trophallaxis Ent.|trɒfəˈlæksɪs|
[f. troph- + Gr. ἄλλαξις exchange.]
The mutual exchange of food material by adult insects and larvæ. Hence trophaˈllactic a.
1918W. M. Wheeler in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. LVII. 322 In Belonogaster the feeding of adults and larvæ is reciprocal... As the relationship is clearly coöperative or mutualistic, I suggest the term trophallaxis. 1919W. Osler Old Humanities ii. 13 The nursing function..is really trophallactic... The larva is provided with..an ambrosia greedily lapped up by the nurse. 1931W. C. Allee Animal Aggregations xix. 388 ‘Trophallaxis’ is the bond that unites parent and offspring in the social insects. 1940Jrnl. Compar. Psychol. XXIX. 456 This process..may be represented as the outcome of a simple conditioned response based upon trophallactic relations in the bivouac. 1978R. J. Elzinga Fund. Entomol. vii. 186 Trophallaxis plays a greater role in ants than it does in the social wasps. |