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What is an inquiline?

What is an inquiline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
  2. (biology) An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
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Inquiline queens must gain access to the host colony, coexist with its queen and workers, and then lay eggs that are reared as sexuals by the host workers.
Queens of socially parasitic inquiline ants reproduce by laying eggs in the colonies of other species.
A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.
The colonies of Bombus illustrate the rise of the inquiline habit.
In central Ontario, eight species of parasitoids and a Periclistus inquiline are associated with this gall.
Notes on the life history, parasites and inquiline associates of Anthophora abrupta Say, and some comparisons with the habits of certain other Anthophorinae.

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