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Figures 1-4. Worker of T. contumax preying on millipede polyxenid (based on photographs): 1-inspecting and seizing millipede prey; 2 - stinging prey (note millipede's setae falling from its body); 3 - stripping the millipede from its upalatable setae (arrows indicate back-and-forth movements of the prey); 4- eating prey's tissues, starting from the head (note the prey's tuft of setae at the left of the figure and the posterior tuft, which in this case was not torn out before the ant started to eat).
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