Polyrhachis gracilior
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| Polyrhachis gracilior | |
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| A worker (from the Western Ghats) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Polyrhachis |
| Species: | P. gracilior |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyrhachis gracilior Forel, 1893 | |
Polyrhachis gracilior is a species of ant found in the southwest and northeast India. It is one of the few ants that build arboreal nests[1] made of leaves stitched together using silk produced by their larvae.
Originally described as a "race" of Polyrhachis furcata, it was elevated to a full species by C T Bingham who noted differences in the shape of the spines.[2] A species described from Travancore as weberi by Horace Donisthorpe in 1943 was identified as being identical to gracilior by Barry Bolton.[3]
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With a larva
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Nest between leaves
References
- ↑ Gaume, Laurence; Megha Shenoy; Merry Zacharias and Renee M. Borges (2006). "Co-existence of ants and an arboreal earthworm in a myrmecophyte of the Indian Western Ghats: anti-predation effect of the earthworm mucus". Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 341–344. doi:10.1017/S0266467405003111.
- ↑ Bingham, CT (1903). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Volume 2. Taylor and Francis, London. p. 388.
- ↑ Bolton B (1973). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 109: 172–180 http://www.archive.org/stream/ants_06428/6428#page/n0/mode/1up
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