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Behavior of ergatoid males in the ant,Cardiocondyla nuda [PDF]
Insectes Sociaux, 1993 Ergatoid males of the ant,Cardiocondyla nuda, attack and frequently kill young males during or shortly after eclosion. Smaller colonies therefore contain typically only one adult male, which may inseminate all alate queens which are reared in the colony over a few weeks.
Jürgen Heinze +2 more
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The dynamics of male-male competition in
BMC Ecology, 2012 Background The outcome of male-male competition can be predicted from the relative fighting qualities of the opponents, which often depend on their age.
Cremer Sylvia +3 more
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Mating success and potential male-worker conflict in a male-dimorphic ant [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007 Background Males of many species adjust their reproductive tactics with regard to their condition and status. For example, large males may develop weapons and fight for access to females, whereas small or undernourished males do not express costly ...
Darrouzet Eric +2 more
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Cardiocondyla pirata sp. n. – a new Philippine ant with enigmatic pigmentation pattern (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2013 A new species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla Emery, 1869 – Cardiocondyla pirata sp. n. – is described from the Philippines. The species belongs to an Indo-Malayan group of six species that is characterized by workersa strongly bilobate ...
Bernhard Seifert, Sabine Frohschammer
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European Journal of Entomology, 2018 The ant genus Cardiocondyla is characterized by wingless, ergatoid males, which in some species replace the typical winged male. Depending on species, ergatoid males engage in lethal fighting for access to sexual females, establish territories within ...
Christine V. SCHMIDT, Jürgen HEINZE
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Sociobiology, 2015 The taxonomy of ant species in the genus Cardiocondyla is very confused due to the extreme difficulty in separating many species based on morphology alone. In Japan, one group of the species complex Cardiocondyla sl.
Ichiro Okita +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2014 The ant genus Cardiocondyla exhibits a fascinating diversity of its reproductive biology, with winged and wingless males, long-winged and short-winged queens, strict monogyny and facultative polygyny with or without queen fighting.
Jürgen Heinze +4 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2007 Cardiocondyla is one of the few ant genera in which winged dispersing males coexist with wingless fighter males, which predominantly mate inside their maternal nests. Male polymorphism is not genetically determined but induced by environmental conditions
Yanyang DU +2 more
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