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A queen ant (formally known as a gyne) is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; she is usually the mother of all the other ants in that colony. Some female ants, such as the Cataglyphis , do not need to mate to produce offspring, reproducing through asexual parthenogenesis or cloning , and all of those offspring will be female. [ 1 ]
Workers can range from 3.5 to 7.5 mm (0.14 to 0.30 in) in length. [1] The queen ant's size can range from 4 to 10 millimetres (0.16 to 0.39 in). [2] This species can be distinguished from other subgenus by little amounts of erect hairs on the gena, limited erect hairs on the clypeal disc and finally by the color which is a concolorous dark brown-black.
Ants range in size from 0.75 to 52 millimetres (0.030–2.0 in), [34] [35] the largest species being the fossil Titanomyrma giganteum, the queen of which was 6 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long with a wingspan of 15 cm (6 in). [36]
The queen can reach 6–9mm in length and is smaller as a new queen. After a queen mates, she removes her wings and digests her wing muscles as food over the winter. Male phenotype 3.5–4.5 mm long, slim, colour black. Only produced by queens when the nuptial flights are approaching.
The pavement ant is dark brown to blackish, and 2.5–4 millimeters (0.10–0.16 in) long. A colony is composed of workers, alates, and a queen. Workers do have a small stinger, which can cause mild discomfort in humans but is essentially harmless. Alates, or new queen ants and drones, have wings, and are at least twice as large as the workers ...
Colonies of real army ants always have only one queen, while some other ant species can have several queens. The queen is dichthadiigyne (a blind ant with large gaster) but may sometimes possess vestigial eyes. [5] The queens of army ants are unique in that they do not have wings, have an enlarged gaster size and an extended cylindrical abdomen ...
It is generally accepted that T. rugatulus ants are monomorphic, meaning that every individual in the colony has the same approximate body size. [8] However, it was proposed that there is some slight, appreciable difference in body size that may lead to different roles within a colony.
Castes in F. truncorum include the drones, the winged male ants with the sole purpose of reproducing, the queen, who sheds her wings after the nuptial flight, and the sterile workers which can vary in size depending on specialized tasks. [4] Eusocial behaviour is thought to have evolved as a result of kin selection within monogamous colonies.