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Figure 5. Polyxenidae before and after 'treatment' by a T. contumax worker, a) untouched millipede, b) millipede after full strip (note that in this particular case the posterior tuft of setae has been completely removed by the ant).

[[Media:Diniz 1998.pdf|Brandão, C. R. F.; Diniz, J. L. M.; Tomotake, E. M. 1991. Thaumatomyrmex strips millipedes for prey: a novel predatory behaviour in ants, and the first case of sympatry in the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 38: 335-344 PDF]]