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has gloss	(noun) small reddish slave-making ant species Amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens
has gloss	eng: Polyergus, also called Amazon ants, is a small genus of 6 described species (and several possible undescribed 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, they have lost the "behavioral wiring" to carry out even rudimentary brood care, or even to feed themselves. Polyergus species subsist solely as a specialized brood-acquiring caste, maintaining a worker force by robbing brood 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" and the Formica workers as "helper-ants", or "domesticated animals". Biologists describe the system simply as social parsitism by Polyergus on the host Formica species.
lexicalization	eng: Amazon ant
lexicalization	eng: Polyergus rufescens
lexicalization	eng: Polyergus
subclass of	(noun) an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants slave-maker, slave-making ant

Meaning
German
lexicalization	deu: Amazonenameise
Japanese
has gloss	jpn: サムライアリ（侍蟻）、学名 Polyergus samurai は、ハチ目（膜翅目）・アリ科・ヤマアリ亜科に分類されるアリの一種。クロヤマアリなどの巣を襲って働きアリやその蛹を攫い、「奴隷」として働かせる習性が知られる。
lexicalization	jpn: サムライアリ
Russian
has gloss	rus: Polyergus - это род Formicidae, включающий муравьёв, ведущих «рабовладельческий» образ жизни (социальные паразиты, известные как «Муравьи-амазонки», или Amazon ants).
lexicalization	rus: Муравьи-амазонки

Links
member of	(noun) Amazon ants Polyergus, genus Polyergus
similar	e/Amazon ant

Media
media:img	Polyergus rufescens casent0010688 head 2.jpg