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Figures 5-7. Hunting and processing of millipede Oxidus gracilis by Gnamptogenys ingeborgae. Fig. 5, Stinging position of the ant on the millipede, with the millipede already dead or paralyzed. Fig. 6, Ant begins to bite at ventral postcephalic area of outstretched millipede while pressing its undercurled gastric apex against the millipede’s postcephalic dorsum in preparation for wrenching off its head region; action takes place in or just outside ant’s nest cell. Fig. 7, Feeding of small ant larvae on millipede carcass on floor of nest cell. Drawings by David Grimaldi.

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1993 [1992]. Two new species of Gnamptogenys, and an account of millipede predation by one of them. Psyche (Camb.) 99: 275-289 PDF

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