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Acanthomyrmex (1) · Camponotus (1) · Carebara (3) · Echinopla (1) · Eciton (1) · Euponera (1) · Gerontoformica (2) · Myopopone (1) · Mystrium (1) · Nesomyrmex (1) · Pheidole (5) · Polyrhachis (1) · Temnothorax (1)

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None (7) · ''Acanthomyrmex'' workers are divided into two different subcastes, so-called minor and major workers. These species are mostly seed predators and the big-headed major workers crush the seeds with their powerful mandibles. (1) · ''Echinopla melanarctos''. This is one of the most bizarre and weird looking ant species and occurs in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The ants look spiny and hairy, but the “spines” are actually socket-shaped protuberances (“pedestals”) of their cuticle from which very long thi (1) · Because of scanning constraints, only the more sclerotised veins of the wings can be seen. (1) · Head of ''M. castanea'' worker (“dracula ant”) from the Australasian region. (1) · Heavily armoured arboreal ant species from Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya. (1) · Known from the Asir Mountains of southwestern Saudi Arabia. (1) · Phragmotic major worker head. (1) · Phragmotic major worker. Collected from leaf litter by R. Belshaw on Nov. 8th, 1992 in Ashanti, Juaso in Ghana. (1) · Phragmotic major worker. Kakamega Forest, Kenya. (1) · The largest soldiers of this species have tusk like mandibles, that are a specialised defence against larger predators. (1) · This is a 3D model of a fossilized ant first presented in the scientific article ‘Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †''Gerontoformica'' (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)’ published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society by Brendon E. Boudinot (2) · This model was prepared by Tunosemi. (2)