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Two New Inquiline Parasites of Nylanderia from the American Southeast


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#1 Offline Martialis - Posted March 27 2020 - 3:55 AM

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https://zookeys.pens.../article/46921/


Pretty interesting. It wasn’t until very recently that social parasitism was documented in Nylanderia at all. Now there are three documented species exhibiting the behavior.
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#2 Offline Ants4fun - Posted March 27 2020 - 5:02 AM

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Very cool. According to the article, the first Nylanderia social parasite was described in 2016, so rarely recently.
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