The venom apparatus and other morphological characters of the ant Martialis heureka (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Martialinae)

We describe and illustrate the venom apparatus and other morphological characters of the recently described Martialis heureka ant worker, a supposedly specialized subterranean predator which could be the sole surviving representative of a highly divergent lineage that arose near the dawn of ant dive...

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Main Authors: Carlos Roberto Ferrreira Brandão, Jorge Luis Machado Diniz, Rodrigo Machado Feitosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2010-01-01
Series:Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0031-10492010002600001