The typical ant colony consists of reproductive females (‘queens’), non-reproductive females (‘workers’) and males that die shortly after mating1. Rare deviations from this standard pattern2 include the loss of workers in socially parasitic ants3 (‘inquilines’) and the absence of males in a few parthenogenetic taxa4. Here, we add a new variant: Temnothorax kinomurai5 is the first ant species known to lack both workers and males and to consist exclusively of queens.
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Hamaguchi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
synapsesocial.com/papers/69a3d6eaec16d51705d2da32 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.5283/epub.78750
Keiko Hamaguchi
K. Kinomura
Ren Kitazawa
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