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  2. Camponotus herculeanus - Wikipedia

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    Camponotus herculeanus (or Hercules ant) [1] is a species of ant in the genus Camponotus, the carpenter ants, [2] occurring in Northern Eurasia, from Norway to Eastern Siberia, and North America. First described as Formica herculeana by Linnaeus in 1758 , [ 3 ] the species was moved to Camponotus by Mayr in 1861.

  3. Carpenter ant - Wikipedia

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    Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers 7 to 13 mm or 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 ⁄ 2 in) indigenous to many forested parts of the world. [ 4 ] They build nests inside wood, consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles or jaws, preferably in dead, damp wood.

  4. Mandible (insect mouthpart) - Wikipedia

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    The mandibles of a bull ant. Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure). Their function is typically to grasp, crush, or cut the insect's food, or to defend against predators or rivals.

  5. Mandible (arthropod mouthpart) - Wikipedia

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    The mandibles of a bull ant. The mandible (from Latin: mandibula or mandĭbŭ-lum, a jaw) [1] of an arthropod is a pair of mouthparts used either for biting or cutting and holding food. Mandibles are often simply called jaws. Mandibles are present in the extant subphyla Myriapoda (millipedes and others), Crustacea and Hexapoda (insects etc.).

  6. Insect mouthparts - Wikipedia

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    In bull ants, the mandibles are elongate and toothed, used both as hunting and defensive appendages. In bees, that feed primarily by the use of a proboscis, the primary use of the mandibles is to manipulate and shape wax, and many paper wasps have mandibles adapted to scraping and ingesting wood fibres.

  7. A Startling Discovery Found Mandibles in 500-Million ... - AOL

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    Mandibulates make up 70 percent of the animal kingdom, but Odaraia alata sported mandibles before it was cool. A Startling Discovery Found Mandibles in 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils. It Doesn't ...

  8. Army ant - Wikipedia

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    The soldiers of army ants are larger than the workers, and they have much larger mandibles than the worker class of ants, with older soldiers possessing larger heads and stronger mandibles than the younger ones. They protect the colony, and help carry the heaviest loads of prey to the colony bivouac.

  9. List of ants of India - Wikipedia

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    This List of ants of India is a list and index to the species of ants found in India. A-D. Acanthomyrmex luciolae Emery, 1893; Acropyga acutiventris Roger, 1862