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Inquiline
Inquiline In"qui*line, n. [L. inquilinus a tenant, lodger.] (Zo["o]l.) A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

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- In zoology, an inquiline (from Latin inquilinus, "lodger" or "tenant") is an animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an...
- name "The Bear", and an anonymous source, code name "Inquiline". classified files from Inquiline reveal Special Activities Center Director and Charlie's...
- Europe, it is common in Great Britain. Lestodiplosis plicatricis is an inquiline; a lodger or tenant of Dasineura plicatrix and live in the gall. "Dasineura...
- colony's nutrients while on the host's back. Most parasites (excluding inquiline ants) eventually kill the host queen by either attacking the queen or...
- Netherlands, and Sweden. Rabdophaga roskami (Stelter, 1989) is probably an inquiline of R. marginemtorquens. Chinery, Michael (2011). Britain's Plant Galls...
- characteristic plant galls they induce themselves, but many species are instead inquilines of other gall wasps, such as those of the genus Synergus. The plant galls...
- pubescens). A mite, Cecidophyopsis vermiformis is an inquiline of Acalitus calycophthirus, as well as an inquiline of Aceria tenella on hornbeam and Phytoptus...
- tumida) that infests honey bee nests, while many species are parasitic inquilines or commensal in the nests of ants. A few groups of beetles are primary...
- consuming the food stores of the ants, or avoiding predators. These inquilines may bear a close resemblance to ants. The nature of this ant mimicry (myrmecomorphy)...
- (2009). Chemical disguise as particular caste of host ants in the ant inquiline parasite Niphanda fusca (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proceedings of the...