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- Polyergus abstract "Polyergus, also called Amazon ants, is a small genus of 14 described species of \"slave-raiding\" ants. Its workers are incapable of caring for brood, in part due to their dagger-like, piercing mandibles, but more importantly, because in the evolution of their parasitism on certain species of the host genus \"Formica\", they have lost the \"behavioral wiring\" to carry out even rudimentary brood care, or even to feed themselves. Polyergus workers exist in essence as a specialized brood-acquiring caste in their mixed Polyergus/Formica colonies, maintaining the Formica worker force by robbing brood, especially pupae, of particular species in the closely related genus Formica in massive colony-to-colony raids. The captured ants are generally referred to as \"slaves\" in scientific and popular literature, though recent attempts have been made to apply other human cultural models, such as describing the Polyergus individuals of a colony as \"raiders\" or \"pirates\" or \"kidnappers\" and the Formica workers as \"helper-ants\", or \"domesticated animals\". Biologists describe the system as parasitism by \"dulosis\" (slavemaking) by Polyergus on the host Formica species.Polyergus obtains its Formica work force by stealing pupae from nearby Formica colonies and carrying them back to its own nest. Back in the Polyergus nest, Formica workers are eventually helped to emerge from the cocoons and pupal exuvia by Formica workers already living there. The new workers quickly assimilate the characteristic odor of the mixed-species population of the Polyergus colony—without violence or coercion. The Formica workers that emerge in the mixed-species colony go on to nurse the brood, forage, maintain the nest, feed their adult captors and their mother the queen, and perform other colony upkeep duties.As far as is known, all established Polyergus colonies have only one queen. However, many contain ergatoids, large, worker-like forms with large gasters. These may be substitutes reproductive individuals after the queen's death, but this has not been proven. To found a new colony, a lone Polyergus queen invades a nest of the host species, or encounters and moves in with a colony-founding queen of the host species and her first few workers. In the latter case, the host queen is allowed to survive until her little colony has reared a sufficient number of host workers to support the parasite queen, something the Polyergus queen cannot do herself. A young Polyergus queen kills the existing Formica queen (immediately if sufficient workers are present, later if these are not yet reared) and becomes accepted by the Formica workers. These proceed to rear the first and all subsequent Polyergus brood. Clearly, this complicated and lengthy process often fails, as Polyergus colonies are relatively rare, even though each mature colony produces dozens or hundreds of new potential queens each year. To counteract the natural mortality of the Formica worker population, Polyergus workers must conduct regular raids over a 6-8 week period, every summer over the 10-15-year life span of their colony.".
- Polyergus class Insect.
- Polyergus family Ant.
- Polyergus family Formicinae.
- Polyergus family Formicini.
- Polyergus kingdom Animal.
- Polyergus order Hymenoptera.
- Polyergus phylum Arthropod.
- Polyergus thumbnail Polyergus_rufescens_casent0173859_profile_1.jpg?width=300.
- Polyergus wikiPageExternalLink description.do?rank=species&name=umbratus_cf&genus=polyergus&project=missouriants.
- Polyergus wikiPageExternalLink polbre.htm.
- Polyergus wikiPageExternalLink spip.php?article130.
- Polyergus wikiPageID "2812376".
- Polyergus wikiPageLength "7574".
- Polyergus wikiPageOutDegree "39".
- Polyergus wikiPageRevisionID "677338289".
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Ant.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ant_genera.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Formicinae.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Ergatoid.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Formica.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Formicinae.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Formicini.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Gaster_(insect_anatomy).
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Hymenoptera.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Incertae_sedis.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Insect.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Mandible_(insect_mouthpart).
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Nest.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Parasitism.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Pierre_André_Latreille.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_bicolor.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_breviceps.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_longicornis.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_lucidus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_mexicanus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_montivagus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_nigerrimus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_oligergus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_ruber.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_rufescens.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_samurai.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_sanwaldi.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_texanus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_topoffi.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Polyergus_vinosus.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Pupa.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink Slave-making_ant.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLink File:Polyergus_lucidus_returning_from_raid_on_Formica_incerta.jpg.
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Amazon ant".
- Polyergus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Polyergus".
- Polyergus classis "Insecta".
- Polyergus diversity "14".
- Polyergus diversityLink "#Species".
- Polyergus familia Ant.
- Polyergus genus "Polyergus".
- Polyergus genusAuthority "Latreille, 1804".
- Polyergus imageCaption "Polyergus rufescens worker".
- Polyergus name "Polyergus".
- Polyergus ordo Hymenoptera.
- Polyergus phylum "Arthropoda".
- Polyergus regnum "Animalia".
- Polyergus subfamilia Formicinae.
- Polyergus tribus Formicini.
- Polyergus typeSpecies "Formica rufescens".
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- Polyergus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Polyergus subject Category:Ant_genera.
- Polyergus subject Category:Formicinae.
- Polyergus type Animal.
- Polyergus type Eukaryote.
- Polyergus type Insect.
- Polyergus type Species.
- Polyergus type Thing.
- Polyergus type Q1390.
- Polyergus type Q19088.
- Polyergus type Q729.
- Polyergus comment "Polyergus, also called Amazon ants, is a small genus of 14 described species of \"slave-raiding\" ants. Its workers are incapable of caring for brood, in part due to their dagger-like, piercing mandibles, but more importantly, because in the evolution of their parasitism on certain species of the host genus \"Formica\", they have lost the \"behavioral wiring\" to carry out even rudimentary brood care, or even to feed themselves.".
- Polyergus label "Polyergus".
- Polyergus sameAs Q1774064.
- Polyergus sameAs Polyergus.
- Polyergus sameAs Polyergus.
- Polyergus sameAs Polyergus.
- Polyergus sameAs Polyergus.
- Polyergus sameAs m.0848yc.
- Polyergus sameAs Муравьи-амазонки.
- Polyergus sameAs Polyergus.
- Polyergus sameAs Polyergus.
- Polyergus sameAs Q1774064.
- Polyergus sameAs 悍蟻.
- Polyergus wasDerivedFrom Polyergus?oldid=677338289.
- Polyergus depiction Polyergus_rufescens_casent0173859_profile_1.jpg.
- Polyergus isPrimaryTopicOf Polyergus.