ABSTRACT
The dominant concepts about social and subsocial behaviors in insects were derived from the well known societies of Hymenoptera and termites. For E. O. Wilson, social behavior dependent on family structure is limited to a few groups of mammals, such as canids and higher primates which have a sufficiently developed intelligence to remember detailed patterns of behavior with which to build barriers or ties in the social structure. On the face of their food and environmental pressures, Scarabaeinae and Necrophorus have not reacted multiplying their offspring, but they have looked for specialization and an increase in the efficiency of their feeding behavior and as a last result in reproductive behavior. The behavioral display includes a complicated courtship; there are movements, contacts and different auditory signals for about an hour to twelve continuous hours.
