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FIGURES 249–253. Megalomyrmex natural history observations. 249. Nest partitioning of M. mondaboroides in host colony of Cyphomyrmex costatus; M. mondaboroides nest in red dirt clump on upper right, next to host fungus garden. 250. Wings of virgin Sericomyrmex amabilis queen (right) clipped by M. symmetochus guest ant (lower left) (photo by J. Liberti). 251. M. wallacei lab colony with four ergatoid queens indicated by two white and two black arrows. 252. Sealed nest entrance auricle of Cyphomyrmex longiscapus (two workers pictured) after nest usurpation by M. wettereri. Small black hole is the reduced entrance. 253. Garden (left) stolen by a M. wettereri colony from the C. longiscapus colony in right dish; several C. longiscapus workers visible in right dish on remnants of their fungus garden; ruler in metric.

Boudinot, B.E. Sumnicht, T.P. and Adams, R.M.M. 2013. Central American ants of the genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): six new species and keys to workers and males. Zootaxa 3732:1-82.