primary pleometrosis

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primary pleometrosis also periodical pleometrosis: (Arthropoda: Insecta) In social Hymenoptera, a colony founded by a group of queens, however, after emergence of the first workers, all but one female disperse

See also: secondary pleometrosis, temporary pleometrosis