Morphometrics, life history and population biology of the Ponto-Caucasian slave-making ant Myrmoxenus tamarae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Abstract. The ant genus Myrmoxenus consists of about ten socially parasitic species including active slave-makers and workerless "degenerate slave-makers". Myrmoxenus tamarae was previously known only from type material, two workers collected at Daba, Georgia and nothing was known about it...

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Main Authors: Nana GRATIASHVILI, Masaki SUEFUJI, Shalva BARJADZE, Jürgen HEINZE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science 2015-01-01
Series:European Journal of Entomology
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Online Access:https://www.eje.cz/artkey/eje-201501-0022_Morphometrics_life_history_and_population_biology_of_the_Ponto-Caucasian_slave-making_ant_Myrmoxenus_tamarae.php

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