Name - Polyrhachis lama

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1060901 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Polyrhachis lama Kohout 1994

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Recent Publications

• Social parasitism involving ants of different subfamilies: Polyrhachis lama (Formicinae) an obligatory inquiline of Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae) in Java.
• How host and parasite communicate: signal analysis of tandem recruitment between two subfamilies, Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae) and its inquiline Polyrhachis lama (Formicinae).
• A unique strategy of host colony exploitation in a parasitic ant: workers of Polyrhachis lama rear their brood in neighbouring host nests.
• Polyrhachis lama, a parasitic ant with an exceptional mode of social integration.

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