Applied to the condition, or to the group possessing it, in which individuals display some degree of social behavior short of eusociality which refers to sterile individuals that work for reproductive individuals.

Presocial species are either subsocial, that is, the parents care for their own nymphs and larvae, or else parasocial, that is, one or two of the following three trails is shown; such as, cooperation in care of young, reproductive division of labor, and/or overlap of generations of life stages that contribute to colony labor.