Polydomous
device used to extract ants and other living organism from soil and leaf-litter samples; a sample is placed on a screen with a funnel beneath, and a heat source above; the drying forces the animals downwards, where they fall into a collecting jar, usually filled with alcohol
in plants, tiny chamber produced by plants to house arthropods
living or foraging above the ground
denotes any intercaste female morphologically intermediate between workers and (winged) queens, not restricted to the reproductive caste; formerly often used interchangeably to refer to ergatoid queens
a wingless (dealate) reproductive adult ant, anatomically intermediate in form between workers and winged queens or males
colony founding by a single queen
subterranean, living below the ground, or at least beneath the leaf litter, stones or dead bark
"parasitogenic" phenotype of worker ants, caused by mermithid nematodes
"parasitogenic" phenotype of gynes, caused by mermithid nematodes
queen mating with a single male
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