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Myrmecocystus testaceus is a species of honeypot ant found throughout the southern United States. It is usually nocturnal, and nests in sand. [1] They can spray formic acid from their gasters to melt skin tissue. Instead of stinging and swarming, they stretch their prey by the legs until it splits or dies from bites and formic acid.
Myrmecocystus (from Koine Greek μυρμήκιον [mýrmikion], meaning "ant", and κύστις [kýstis], meaning "bladder" or "sac"), is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It is one of five genera that includes honeypot ants . [ 2 ]
Myrmecocystus honeypot ants, showing the repletes or plerergates, their abdomens swollen to store honey, above ordinary workers. Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, [1] plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously.
Strongylognathus testaceus [291] [292] Strumigenys: Smith 1860 842 Strumigenys mandibularis: Strumigenys abdera [262] Syllophopsis: Santschi 1915 20 Monomorium modestum: Syllophopsis modesta [293] Talaridris: Weber 1941 1 Talaridris mandibularis: Talaridris mandibularis [48] Temnothorax: Mayr 1861 395 Myrmica recedens: Temnothorax unifasciatus ...
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