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has gloss(noun) small reddish slave-making ant species
Amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens
has glosseng: 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.
lexicalizationeng: Amazon ant
lexicalizationeng: Polyergus rufescens
lexicalizationeng: 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
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German
lexicalizationdeu: Amazonenameise
Japanese
has glossjpn: 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。
lexicalizationjpn: サムライアリ
Russian
has glossrus: Polyergus - это род Formicidae, включающий муравьёв, ведущих «рабовладельческий» образ жизни (социальные паразиты, известные как «Муравьи-амазонки», или Amazon ants).
lexicalizationrus: Муравьи-амазонки
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member of(noun) Amazon ants
Polyergus, genus Polyergus
similare/Amazon ant
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media:imgPolyergus rufescens casent0010688 head 2.jpg

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