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All ants are in family Formicidae and all of them have a waist. Their waist is
composed of one or two knobs which are the first one or two segments of their
abdomen. Their antennae have a distinct elbow. Ants live in colonies made up of
several castes. These included the winged male, winged female and wingless
workers.
Ants are social insects; they form small
to large colonies. Ant colonies usually contain: an egg-laying queen and many
workers together with their brood i.e., eggs, larvae and pupae. Worker ants
carry out different jobs including nest
construction, foraging, looking after the brood and queen, and nest defense.
When the ant colony becomes mature, the next
generation of winged queens and males are produced. They are present in the nest for
only a short period. Soon after emerging, they leave the nest to mate and
establish new nests elsewhere.
Queens usually look similar to the workers but have larger bodies.
Males are about the same size as the
workers or smaller, with smaller heads, larger ocelli and smaller mandibles.
Males may look more like wasps than ants.
Most ants will attack their enemy. Some ants have powerful
stings. Others eject vapors of formic acid.
Ponerinae - Pony Ants
The mesosoma is attached to the gaster with a single segment. The gaster
usually has a distinct impression between the first and second segments.
There is the sting at the tip of their gaster.
Myrmicinae - Myrmicine ants
For the Myrmicines ants the mesosoma is attached to the gaster by two distinct
segments. There is the sting at the tip of their gaster.
Dolichoderinae - Meat Ants, Tyrant Ants
The petiole is a single segment. The gaster is smooth and does not have
constrictions between the segments. The tip of the gaster is absent of sting,
and is slit-like, without a circular opening.
Formicinae - Spiny Ants, Sugar Ants
For the Formicinae ants the petiole is a single segment. The gaster is smooth
and does not have constrictions between the segments. The tip of the gaster is
absent of a sting.
Reference and Link:
1. Australian
Ants Online - S.O. Shattuck and N.J. Barnett, CSIRO 2001.
2. Common names of northern Australian ants
- CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, 24 May, 2005.
3. Common names for Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
- Alan N Andersen, Australian Journal of Entomology (2002) 41 , 285–293.
4. Australian
Ant Image Database - Australian Ant Image Database, R.W Taylor.
5. myrmecos.net -
myrmecos.net, Alex Wild, 2005.
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