Temnothorax albipennis (lat.) Is a species of small-sized ants of the tribe Formicoxenini from the subfamily Myrmicinae of the family Formicidae . Found in Europe : Austria , Great Britain , Germany , Spain , Italy , Netherlands , Poland , Slovenia , Ukraine , France , Czech Republic [2] . Small yellowish-brown ants (2-3 mm). In the colonies of Temnothorax albipennis, the ant Myrmoxenus ravouxi (André, 1896) parasitizes [3] .
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Behavior
Temnothorax albipennis has interactive learning. Aware forager leads a companion to a newly discovered power source by running in tandem . The "student" receives information from the "leader." In this case, the “leader” and “student” are always in contact and monitor each other's progress: the “teacher” slows down when the “student” lags behind, and accelerates when the student is too close [4] . At the same time, the teacher alone would have achieved food four times faster. Having learned a lesson, “students” themselves often become “teachers”, thus information about the position of the feed is distributed throughout the nest [5] .
Temnothorax albipennis avoid sites with dead ants, as this may indicate the presence of diseases or pests. They immediately abandon the construction of the nest at the first sign of a threat [6] .
Laboratory studies have shown the presence in Temnothorax albipennis anthills of a small proportion of more active working intelligence individuals that activate the movement of other less active ants [7] . Parasitic fungi Myrmicinosporidium durum ( Chytridiomycetes ) were found on ants [8] .
See also
- Temnothorax affinis
Notes
- ↑ Curtis, J. 1854: On the genus Myrmica, and other indigenous ants. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 21: 211-220.
- ↑ Temnothorax albipennis - www.FaunaEur.org
- ↑ Epimyrma ravouxi - Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce .
- ↑ Franks NR, Richardson T. Teaching in tandem-running ants (Eng.) // Nature . - 2006. - Vol. 439 , no. 7073 . - P. 153 . - DOI : 10.1038 / 439153a . - PMID 16407943 .
- ↑ Ants were able to educate brethren . Lenta.ru (January 12, 2006). Date of treatment March 8, 2011. Archived on August 18, 2011.
- ↑ Franks NR, Hooper J., Webb C., Dornhaus A. Tomb evaders: house-hunting hygiene in ants (Eng.) // Biology Letters . - Royal Society Publishing , 2005. - Vol. 1 , no. 2 . - P. 190—192 . - DOI : 10.1098 / rsbl.2005.0302 . - PMID 17148163 .
- ↑ Some working ants were more equal than others
- ↑ Alfred BUSCHINGER, Jeanette BEIBL, Patrizia DETTORRE & Werner EHRHARDT. 2004. Recent records of Myrmicinosporidium durum Holldobler, 1933, a fungal parasite of ants, with first record north of the Alps after 70 years. Archived August 22, 2011 at Wayback Machine Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 6: 9-12.
Literature
- Radchenko A. 2004 : A review of the ant genera Leptothorax Mayr and Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Eastern Palaearctic. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , 50 (2): 109-137.