- the
Formicidae containing ants of
moderate evolutionary development.
Formicines retain some
primitive features, such as the
presence of
cocoons around...
- Donnelly, M. A.; Edwards, A. L.; Longino, J. T.; Daly, J. W. (2004). "
Formicine ants: an
arthropod source for the
pumiliotoxin alkaloids of dendrobatid...
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Their stings are
painful and can be
dangerous to hy****nsitive people.
Formicine ants
secrete a
poison from
their glands, made
mainly of
formic acid. Trap-jaw...
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temporal variation of
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis/Hirsutella
formicarum on
Formicine ants".
Journal of
Invertebrate Pathology. 111 (3): 217–224. doi:10.1016/j...
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antennae with 10
segments plus a two-segmented club. Many ants bite, and
formicine ants can
cause irritation by
spraying formic acid;
myrmecine ants like...
-
citronella oils Citronelle, Alabama, a city in the U.S. Lasius, a
genus of
formicine ants
commonly known as
citronella ants
Pelargonium 'citrosum', or citrosa...
-
November 1978). "Biosynthesis of
formic acid by the
poison glands of
formicine ants".
Biochimica et
Biophysica Acta (BBA) -
General Subjects. 543 (4):...
- bite with
their mandibles. However, as
carpenter ants like
these are
formicines, they have no
functional sting.
Instead of stinging, they can use an acidopore...
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known to
reproduce by parthenogenesis. In
Cataglyphis cursor, a
European formicine ant, the
queens and
workers can
produce new
queens by parthenogenesis...
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cutaneous toxicity to its rich diet of
formicinae ants.
Species of the
formicine genus Brachymyrmex contain pumiliotoxins which the
frogs incorporate and...
