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addition to
morphological features,
ergatoids among different species can
exhibit a wide
range of behaviors, with some
ergatoids acting only as reproductives...
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distinguishing feature of queens. In a few species,
wingless queens (
ergatoids) and
males occur. The
metasoma (the "abdomen") of the ant
houses important...
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having true
workers that can molt into the
other apterous castes such as
ergatoids (worker reproductive;
apterous neotenics), soldiers, or the
other worker...
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protein repair.
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Ergatoid Queen bee Keller, Laurent; Gordon,
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February 2009). The Lives...
- line (brachypterous neotenics) or, in rare cases, the
worker line (
ergatoids).
Ergatoids are the only
members of the
reproductive caste that have neither...
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alate or
ergatoid, or both
forms may
occur within a
single species. It is
possible that all
species will be
found to
produce both
ergatoids and alates...
- Silvestre, R. (2001). "The
first case of
intranidal phragmosis in ants. The
ergatoid queen of
Blepharidatta conops (Formicidae, Myrmicinae)
blocks the entrance...
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widely distributed but
rarely encountered. The
species has a
discrete ergatoid queen caste that is
intermediate between a
worker and an
alate queen. Despite...
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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...
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established Polyergus colonies have only one queen. However, many
contain ergatoids, large, worker-like
members with
large gasters.
These may be substitute...
