Foraging by predatory ants: A review. [PDF]
Insect SciThis review focuses on ecological and behavioral characteristics of foraging in ants showing the wide diversity of cases. Most ants can feed on sugary substances, but some ground‐nesting species are strict predators. Except army ants during the nomadic phase, they are central‐place foragers that can recruit nestmates when necessary. They prey mostly on
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Faunistic updates on Greek ants: First record of Strumigenys membranifera (Emery, 1869) from Crete and Strumigenys baudueri (Emery, 1875) from Andros [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) comprises over 890 species worldwide. Strumigenys membranifera, a widely distributed tramp species, is known for its small size, thelytokous parthenogenesis and predatory behaviour.Herein, we ...
Christos Georgiadis
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Review of the genus Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in Hong Kong with the description of three new species and the addition of five native and four introduced species records [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 The species of the ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 found in Hong Kong are reviewed based on new sampling efforts performed over the past five years (2014–2018). Prior to this, 12 Strumigenys species had been recorded from Hong Kong, all confirmed here.
Kit Lam Tang +2 more
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Strumigenys fairchildi Brown, 1961 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae): first record of this rarely collected ant from Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2016 Strumigenys fairchildi Brown, 1961 is recorded for the first time in Brazil. This ant species was previously known only from a few specimens collected in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. The worker S.
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Divergent evolution of colony-level metabolic scaling in ants. [PDF]
J Anim EcolThe study shows for the first time that the metabolic scaling of active ant colonies varies as a function of trophic level and worker polymorphism. Therefore, the ecological divergence of metabolic scaling observed in unitary organisms occurs across levels of biological organization.
Pequeno PACL, Glazier DS.
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Vertical Stratification Increases the Capacity of Morphological Traits to Predict Trophic Position in Neotropical Ants. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe use data from 73 Neotropical ant species to examine the strength of associations between nine morphological traits and trophic position. No individual morphological trait explained variation in the trophic position of arboreal species, whereas three traits individually correlated with the trophic position of ground species, but only weakly so ...
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New ant records from La Réunion Island (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalLa Réunion Island (Mascarene Archipelago, south-western Indian Ocean) hosts a largely introduced ant fauna, shaped by historical and ongoing human-mediated introductions.
Dominique Carval +6 more
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Strumigenys perplexa (Smith, 1876) (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) a new exotic ant to Europe with establishment in Guernsey, Channel Islands [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2021 Ants are continually introduced into regions outside of their natural biogeographic ranges via global trade. The genus Strumigenys Smith 1860 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) are minute predators with a growing history of global introductions, although tropical ...
Matthew T. Hamer +2 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 In 1887, Mayr described four species of the ant genus Strumigenys collected in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina: Strumigenys unidentata, Strumigenys subedentata, Strumigenys denticulata, and Strumigenys crassicornis.
Thiago Sanches Ranzani Da Silva +2 more
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Taxonomy, 2023 Strumigenys is one of the largest genera of ants, and one of the few which has received relatively recent global taxonomic treatment at the species level. Despite this, many new species continue to be found in most biogeographic regions.
Júlio Cezar Mário Chaul
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