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- An ergatoid (from Gr**** ergat-, "worker" + -oid, "like") is a permanently wingless reproductive adult ant or termite. The similar but somewhat ambiguous...
- widely distributed but rarely encountered. The species has a discrete ergatoid queen caste that is intermediate between a worker and an alate queen. Despite...
- distinguishing feature of queens. In a few species, wingless queens (ergatoids) and males occur. The metasoma (the "abdomen") of the ant houses important...
- and protein repair. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ant queens. Ergatoid Queen bee Keller, Laurent; Gordon, Elisabeth (26 February 2009). The Lives...
- having true workers that can molt into the other apterous castes such as ergatoids (worker reproductive; apterous neotenics), soldiers, or the other worker...
- reproductive caste; formerly often used interchangeably to refer to ergatoid queens ergatoid a wingless (dealate) reproductive adult ant, anatomically intermediate...
- leaf-litter, with small monogynous or polygynous colonies. Queens are ergatoid (i.e. permanently wingless and worker-like) and, at least in B. conops...
- apterous (i.e., wingless), like workers, thus these queens are called ergatoid (i.e., worker-like) to be distinct from alate queens that have wings. This...
- thickset mesosoma with strongly convex dorsal profile as well as wingless, ergatoid males with sickle-shaped mandibles. The female castes show a pigmentation...
- with little variation among workers of a given species. Some queens are ergatoid and have no wings, while others have either stubby or completely developed...