Key to ''[[Polyergus]]'' species of the United States based on workers, modified from Trager (2013).
...rgites with dense pubescence yielding a silky sheen, obscuring the surface of the integument beneath; Eurasian and North American, in North America from
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*Entire body dark brown to blackish; pilosity of anterior first tergite gently curved to nearly straight; eastern temperate
...own or blackish coloring on the legs, lower mesosoma, and gaster; pilosity of anterior first tergite conspicuously bent or strongly flexuous in the one E
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|name = ''Formica canadensis''
|image = Formica canadensis casent0005362 head 1.jpg
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..._ref || Formicinae || In || Turkey(?) || Europe || + || Polygynous species of Lasius.
Names, taxonomy, type of parasitism, and species range.
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|name = ''Harpagoxenus canadensis''
|image = Harpogoxenus-canadensis MCZ001H.jpg
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New England encompasses the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
There is a list of [[New England Ant Species|New England Ant Species]]
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...lony. It involves a parasitic species which is dependent on one or several host species. The relationship can be obligatory or facultative, permanent or te
'''Holldobler & Wilson (1990)''', following a suggestion of Wasmann (1891), distinguished between "compound nests" and "mixed colonies"
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|name = ''Leptothorax canadensis''
|species = '''''L. canadensis'''''
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|comment1=Raiding ''[[Formica fusca]]'' group mound ant
...'', contrasting with ''mexicanus''’s larger size, and association with ''[[Formica subsericea]]''. In the Dakotas and Rockies, a closer examination may be req
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*''[[Myrmica rubra canadensis]]'' Wheeler, W.M., 1916
...of numerous nests (polydomous) in moist soil and in mounds of moss. It is host for the [[Xenobiosis|xenobiotic]] ant {{Associate|Relationship = xenobiont|
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...affected or, in the great majority of cases, suffering from the attentions of its partner.
...s discovered by Heinrich Kutter (1950a) at Saas-Fee, in an isolated valley of the Swiss Alps near Zermatt. Its behavior has been studied by Stumper (195
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...lia]], [[Montenegro]], [[Netherlands]], [[Norway]], [[Poland]], [[Republic of Moldova]], [[Romania]], [[Russian Federation]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]],
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...diers during colony growth, with older colonies having a higher proportion of majors. Brood and sexuals were found in nests in June, August and September
|comment5=Queen in an incipient nest under the bark of a log. Mashpee, MA USA
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...been described. Overall, it is quite possible that 20,000 or more species of ants, encompassing as many as 350 genera, exist in the world.
==The taxonomy of ants==
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...ividuals that navigate all the dangers must also avoid breeding with males of other species, thus producing inviable or sterile offspring.
...founding queens is extremely high. In this case a recently dealated queen of [[Pogonomyrmex maricopa]] has been captured by a crab spider. (From Holldob
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CHAPTER 4. ALTRUISM AND THE ORIGIN OF THE WORKER CASTE
...rge part of their repertory being devoted, start to finish, to the welfare of the queen and their siblings.
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...e strong areas of interest. This page is a place to begin to gather a list of publications, however incomplete, published about these topics.
...species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages. Journal of Biogeography. 42:1776-1786. doi:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12537 10.111
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...whose colonies do not divide until the worker populations exceed hundreds of thousands or even a million (Raignier and Van Boven, 1955; Rettenmeyer, 196
...ined speed and freedom from risk. Only by studying it as one strategy out of a great many possible can we expect to understand more deeply the way that
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...hroponera pumicata'' Ray, in Raffray, 1887: 21, itself a misinterpretation of ''Bothroponera pumicosa''; see footnote in Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 921.]
...inea) bituberculatus'' var. ''brunnea'' Karavaiev, 1935a: 108, in captions of fig. 26. ''Nomen nudum''. ''D. thoracicus brunnea'': Dill, 2002: 66. ''Nome
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CHAPTER 8. CASTE AND DIVISION OF LABOR
...ures: care of the young by adults, overlap in generations, and a division of labor into reproductive and nonreproductive castes.
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