Camponotus saundersi

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Camponotus saundersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Camponotus
Species: C. saundersi
Binomial name
Camponotus saundersi
Emery, 1889

Camponotus saundersi is a species of ant found in Malaysia.

It has a defensive behavior of self-destructing. Two oversized, poison-filled mandibular glands run the entire length of the ant's body. When combat takes a turn for the worse, the ant violently contracts its abdominal muscles to rupture its body and spray poison in all directions.

[edit] Description

Workers are 4 to 6 mm long.[1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Emery 1889: 516

[edit] References

  • Emery, Carlo (1889): Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. XX. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leonardo Fea (1885-87). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) 2 7(27): 485-520. [ PDF]
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