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allodapine, a. and n. Ent.|æləʊˈdeɪpaɪn|
[f. mod.L. genus name Allodape (coined in P. A. Latreille et al. Encycl. Méthodique (Histoire Naturelle) (1825) x. 19/1), f. Gr. ἀλλοδαπός foreign: see -ine1.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to the genus Allodape or the subfamily Allodapinae of primitively social bees, which rear the broods of several females communally in unsealed burrows and some of which are parasitic in other bee colonies.
B. n. An allodapine bee.
1969Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. XLII. 248 Eversible ventrolateral projections or pseudopods occur and serve to hold and manipulate food in some species of Braunsapis and other allodapines. Ibid. 289 To permit publication of materials on the ecology, behavior, and systematics of allodapine bees.., certain new genera are described. 1975D. V. Alford Bumble Bees iv. 57 Larvae of allodapine bees, which are primitively social,..continue to receive food after they have hatched. |