Six New Dracula Ants From Madagascar - “Mystrium was a difficult group to identify because of the remarkable variation within each species.” Yoshimura said. - http://www.redorbit.com/news...
Apr 1, 2014
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Mystrium species have unique features such as long, spatulate mandibles that snap together (Gronenberg et al. 1998); wingless queens that in some undetermined species are even smaller than workers (Molet et al. 2007); and large, wingless individuals intermediate between workers and queens, which behave like queens (Molet et al. 2012).
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“Our team has explored Madagascar and its surrounding islands for 20 years and collected thousands of specimens to solve the mysteries of Mystrium,” said Fisher, an expert on Malagasy ants.
- Halil