Exploring Tibetan ants
In their paper “Cryptic species of the Myrmica tibetana complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revealed by integrative taxonomy” published in Myrmecological News in August 2018, Bernhard Seifert,...
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Ophiocordyceps – ant infecting fungi
Ophiocordyceps is an ascomycetous genus comprising mostly entomopathogenic fungi. There are approximately 250 species described infecting hosts across 11 insect orders. Along its evolutionary history,...
Colobopsis explodens, a new “exploding ant”
The “exploding ants” of Southeast Asia are currently being investigated in the multidisciplinary WWTF project “Voluntary self-sacrifice in exploding ants: A mechanism to defend co-evolved...
Strobing in Australian strobe ants Opisthopsis haddoni
The strobe ants of Australia (Opisthopsis spp.) move with a rapid staccato gait, appearing as if they were under a strobe light. A Photoblog contribution...
