Emery C. 1910. They can range in color from a deep golden color to dull brown. Eciton burchellii swarms take a broad range of prey types, including other social Hymenoptera (other ants, in particular), Dictyoptera (cockroaches and mantids), spiders, scorpions, and Orthoptera. Knowlton, E. D. and A. Kamath. Certificate The frequency of raids is also fine-tuned in at least one species (Neivamyrmex nigrescens) by the day-to-day availability of food. Eciton burchellii Taxonomy ID: 213866 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid213866) current name. Colony composition, phasic reproduction, and queenworker dimorphism of an oriental non-army ant doryline, Moura, M.N., Cardoso, D.C., Cristiano, M.P. 2004. Was delivered super speedily! Brown (1950, 1952), is a highly specialized and ponderous operation. An Eciton burchellii in uska species han Formicidae nga syahan ginhulagway ni John Obadiah Westwood hadton 1842. These alternating phases of emigration frequency are governed by coinciding brood developmental stages. The mites are mainly thought to be harmless to the ants, being symbionts rather than parasites. Eciton burchellii colonies have been found to inhabit areas with no direct sunlight, regulate their bivouac's temperature and airflow, and prefer the closed-canopy forest environment over a fragmented one. Billen, J. Please Be Aware: The specimen that you will receive may differ in size, shape or colour very slightly since you are purchasing a natural product. This was made possible by their feat of culturing army ant colonies in the laboratory long enough to follow the brood cycle under controlled conditions. Hymenoptera-Formicidae. Roberts, D.L., R.J. Cooper and L.J. Journal of Tropical Ecology 5(1): 113-116. Ive already placed another order! Two other matings were observed by Schneirla (1971) after the ants had been removed for laboratory observation. Those workers left with larvae showed much greater continuous activity. 2019. [citation needed], Eciton burchellii ants are found in the tropical jungles of Central and South America, from Mexico to Paraguay. By the end of the third and final week of the statary period, larvae hatch, again all within a few days of each other. The smaller and medium-sized workers race along the chemical trails and extend it at the point, while the larger, clumsier soldiers, unable to keep a secure footing among their nestmates, travel for the most part on either side. Wheeler W. M. 1922. Mus. There are some ants that simply are not meant to be kept as pets. [16] When a colony's size reaches a maximum, it can result in a split in the colony, with the old queen heading one resultant swarm and a daughter heading the other. Kusnezov N. 1953. These occurrences, which are regular and precise events in every Eciton colony, are adequate to prepare the queen for the massive egg-laying operation which begins about one week after the nomadic phase has ended. 73-80 in: Westwood, J. O. [29] These habitats have more variable ground-level temperatures, exposure to direct sunlight, and increased visibility. 2021. Beautiful item, looks lovely on my self. Ann. Since they are above-ground foragers, they are extremely sensitive to forest clearing and habitat destruction. Most species have a soldier caste with mandibles modified into ice-tong shaped hooks for defense against vertebrates. Acad. Fauna de hormigas del departamento del Valle del Cauca (Colombia). Please visit our ethics pages in the menu for details on the type of projects we work with. and wild E. burchellii colonies. 1979. 2019. Matang nga nahiubos. 2020. Working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. This noise, more or less continuous, beats on the ears of an observer until it acquires a distinctive meaning almost as the collective death rattle of the countless victims. In terms of geographical distribution, this species is found in the Amazon jungle and Central America. 1974c. Here, we compared the microbiota of workers and larvae of the army ant Eciton burchellii with those of 13 myrmecophile beetle species using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. But organization does exist, indicated not only by the maintenance of a general direction but also by the occurrence of flanking movements of limited scope, alternately to right and left, at intervals of 5 to 20 minutes depending on the size of the swarm. Eciton burchellii (Westwood, 1842) Kaliwatan sa murag-sulom ang Eciton burchellii. Ini nga species ginbahin ha masunod nga subspecies: E. b. burchellii; E. b. cupiens; E. b. foreli . Siqueira de Castro F., A. This insect is found in the tropical jungles of central and south America, from Mexico to Paraguay. 2020. Mackay, P. Rojas and R. Zapata-Mata. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. [33], There are many species of birds that use the foraging practices of the Eciton burchellii as a source of food. Better than imagined. Redia. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Insectes Sociaux 54:118-123, Kumar, A. and S. O'Donnell. The steady advance in a principal direction, usually with not more than 15 deviation to either side, indicates a considerable degree of internal organization, notwithstanding the chaos and confusion that seem to prevail within the advancing mass. Oh wow, these are simply stunning!!! antbase.org, version (05/2005). First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Eciton burchellii (Westwood, 1842) NCBI BLAST name: ants Rank: species Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard) Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 5 (Invertebrate Mitochondrial) Pp. All animals flee them, not can predate on any but a few individuals, they are known to everyone as the terrifying stuff of nightmares. Eciton burchellii l mt loi kin qun i Tn Th gii thuc chi Eciton. La fauna mirmecolgica de Bolivia. An Eciton burchellii in nahilalakip ha genus nga Eciton, ngan familia nga formicidae. Systematic Biology 68, 642656, Boulay, R., Quagebeur, M., Godzinska, E.J., Lenoir, A. Packaged very well and arrived without any damage! 2019. Beautiful product, dispatch and received quickly - very pleased! It's unethical for hobbyists to keep colonies of army ants from Dorylinae, because their uncommon colonies produce only one viable queen every 1-2 years; that, and their hitherto 100% failure rate in captivity, even under the care of well-funded institutions. & Orivel, J. Their bodies are heavily laden with exocrine glands resembling those of the queens. Diversity of commensals within nests of ants of the genus Neoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) in Bahia, Brazil. Their waists are two-segmented. The migratory phase itself continues as long as the brood initiated during the previous statary period remains in the larval stage. M. Vasquez-Bolanos, G. Castano-Meneses, A. Cisneros-Caballero, G. A. Quiroz-Rocha, and J. L. Navarrete-Heredia) p 115-122. [] than a random dude coming and collecting a single queen. Southwestern Entomologist 39(4): 783-795. (1980) removed the larval brood of an early migratory colony and replaced it with the pupal brood of an early statary colony. Ecological Entomology 46, 352359, Trible, W., Kronauer, D.J.C. As soon as the larvae pupate, however, the intensity of the raids diminishes, the emigrations cease, and the colony (by definition) passes into the next statary phase. This species, one of the most extensively studied ant species, consists of expansive, organized swarm raids that give it the informal name, Eciton army ant This species displays polymorphic caste features, with the soldier ants having much larger heads and mandibles. Dieta y dispersion de semillas por dos especies de Tangara (Habia) en dos tipos de vegetacion en los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Canal 6 Editora 458 pages. Sterile workers are of four discrete size-castes: minors, medias, porters (sub-majors), and soldiers . Subspecies. Personality of ant colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) underlying mechanisms and ecological consequences. There's also a recent study about ant color vision but I can't find it right now (ants can see red light although they get problems if it's dark red at weak intensity, that helped me to build the flashlight I use to watch my Camponotus ants). Both are extremely aggressive. Fragmentation and elevation effects on birdarmy ant interactions in neotropical montane forest of Costa Rica. Each ant will walk to a hole and measure itself to see if it fits; if it does, it will lie across the hole motionless to allow other members of the colony to cross at a higher speed. Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. J. Kans. Psyche 2013: Article 320590, Mizuno, R., Suttiprapan, P., Jaitrong, W., Yamada, A., Ito, F. 2021. )-Eciton burchellii was the original name for publication of this species of Army Ant, but in the late 1800's the double i was regarded as unnecessary by taxonomists. Favretto M. A., E. Bortolon dos Santos, and C. J. Geuster. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items! So happy with it. A fully functioning nest of Army Ants, the only one in the world just now, would prove a massive . Ants from British Guiana. [14], Colonies may be quite large, accommodating as many as 100,000 to 600,000 adult individuals. Petit. In his voluminous theoretical writings on the subject, Schneirla often spoke of "trophallaxis" as the driving force of the cycles of army ants, but it is clear that he meant this term to be virtually synonymous with "communication" in the broadest sense. Yeah, that was pretty cool. The colony members can also manipulate the bivouac to avoid rainfall or direct sunlight. Formicidae. Beautifully mounted and labelled. [34], The eusocial Hymenoptera order has a constrained effective population size compared to other orders. 2004. Other species of Eciton always hunt in files. Puebla-Olivares, F., and K. Winker. Biol. Our lack of knowledge of the semiotic basis of the Eciton cycle is due simply to the lack of any serious attempt to obtain it. arrived super fast, well packaged and gorgeous. (See Habitat and Geography for more! There's other subfamilies living in Asia and Africa, but these are the most notorious. Their diets differ in the two seasons offered in the tropics; dry season and wet season. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 880-893. With the exception that maybe someone has so much money, they can make (or hire people to make) a massive huge enclosure for them and also hire professionals to maintain it. [34] However, this source of food can be unpredictable, as the Eciton burchellii colonies' raiding zones are always shifting. 1993. They most likely were present to exploit the hosts for mechanical transportation or to use their waste deposits.[41]. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. When he deprived Eciton colonies in the early migratory phase of their callow workers, they lapsed into the relatively lethargic state characteristic of the statary phase, and emigrations ceased. Survival in the exposed conditions brought about by forest clearing is physiologically difficult. Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 3: 51-68. Oecologia. Eciton burchellii is a species of New World army ant in the genus Eciton. 349-412 in: Andrade M. G., G. Amat Garca, and F. Fernndez. Some spiders can modify the composition of their silk to deter predators from climbing onto their webs. Rylands A. As she runs along she is crowded in by the "retinue," a shifting mob consisting of an unusual number of soldiers and darkly colored, unladen smaller workers. This way, they ensure that there are available resources in their foraging area and they avoid any aggressive conspecific encounters. Species: throughout the Neotropics. (eds.) 2018. For if the activity cycle is controlled by the reproductive cycle, what controls the reproductive cycle? Agosti, D., and N. F. Johnson. It's so much smaller than I thought it would be but still very lovely. Lista comentada de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del norte de Mxico. As illustrated in Figure 16-4, the mass eclosion at the start of the migratory phase coincides with the hatching of the egg mass. Entomol. The colony raids are maintained by the use of pheromones, can be 200 metres (660ft) long, and employ up to 200,000 ants. Diversidade e riqueza de formigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) em remanescentes de Mata Atlntica na Bacia Hidrogrfica do Alto Tiet, SP. Mitt. ", "Gene flow is maintained by polyandry and male dispersal in the army ant, A documentary by Carl Rettenmeyer of University of Connecticut: Associates of Eciton burchelli (2009), A documentary by Carl Rettenmeyer of University of Connecticut: Astonishing Army Ants (2009), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eciton_burchellii&oldid=1089746232, This page was last edited on 25 May 2022, at 12:20. Diversity and phylogenetic community structure of ants along a Costa Rican elevational gradient. Lattke and J.J. Boomsma. Workers encountering prey lay extra recruitment trails that draw nestmates differentially in that direction (Chadab and Rettenmeyer, 1975). 2008. It is a "swarm raider," which means that the foraging workers spread out into a fan-shaped swarm with a broad front. One foundress queen every 1-2 years does not fall under that category. Pap. ), 19. [28], Tropical forest clearing efforts by humans has detrimented the survival of Eciton burchellii colonies. 2019. An overview of the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the state of Maranhao, Brazil. I brought this as I've never seen this in the world of framed entomology species. 1916. Chacon de Ulloa P., A. M. Osorio-Garica, R. Achury, and C. Bermudez-Rivas. would have to be a giant circle tube. Courtesy of Sean O'Donnell. A distribution map of the army ants at the genus level would have revealed the . When it starts to develop at dawn, the foray at first has no particular direction, but in the course of time one section acquires a direction through a more rapid advance of its members and soon drains in the other radial expansions. [24], During their raids, Eciton burchellii have also been known to predate wasp nests of species such as Polistes erythrocephalus. [part]. At least 29 bird species are obligate specialists on foraging at army ant raid fronts, and additional species across diverse avian orders follow army ant raids in a facultative manner. Notas sobre las hormigas del Cusco. Perfectly framed, and specimen was in in excellent condition. Longino J. et al. Actually the soldiers, with their large heads and exceptionally long, sickle-shaped mandibles, have relatively little control over their nestmates and serve instead almost exclusively as a defense force. Mus. I believe is possible. (Rio J.) Bull. In lieu of underground excavated nests, colonies of E. burchellii form temporary living nests known as bivouacs, which are composed of hanging live worker bodies and which can be disassembled and relocated during colony emigrations. They have parental care ( female provides care ). The food supply is quickly and drastically reduced in the immediate vicinity of each colony. Oecologia 189(2): 501-513. Workers often work in teams, with large medias serving as porters. Ahuatzin D. A., E. J. Corro, A. Aguirre Jaimes, J. E. Valenzuela Gonzalez, R. Machado Feitosa, M. Cezar Ribeiro, J. Carlos Lopez Acosta, R. Coates, W. Dattilo. This species performs expansive, organized swarm raids that give it the informal name, Eciton army ant. Stud. Am. [29] This is accomplished by the males flying at least one kilometer away from their home population to mate with a neighboring colony's queen, thereby minimizing the chances of procreating with a related queen. Ecosystem-Wide Morphological Structure of Leaf-Litter Ant Communities along a Tropical Latitudinal Gradient. Ze zijn een van de meest dominante levensvormen op de bodem. Hormigas de Colombia. Wonderful piece. Bras. The adult workers make up the majority of the population. Rev. Avian attendance and foraging at army-ant swarms in the tropical rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Wow, who'd have known you can get entomology Ants, especially Army Ants. Sterile workers are of four discrete size-castes: minors, medias, porters, and . This imposes a selective pressure on the colonies, as the arthropods collected from these raids represent nearly half of the food consumed by the ants. [17], The diet and physical upbringing vary among the colony's larvae and is known to determine the physical characteristics of the adult insect. Ecological Entomology 31: 491498. Another question of considerable interest, added to the inducement of queen oogenesis, is the stimulus that triggers the onset of the migratory phase. Hlldobler, B. and Wilson, E. O. The raids involve around 200,000 (if not more) individuals, and they'll cover areas of the forest floor like a carpet of insects. They rest in temporary nests made entirely of ants, also known as a ' bivouac '. We can read those reports and apply them to ant-keeping directly, to understand the biology of a species or their place in the ecosystems we all depend on, or apply them in creative ways to directly lucrative projects (to robotics, for example). Cochabamba 6: 211-229. 2011. At this time the queen apparently begins to feed voraciously. Suddenly the queen appears in the thickest part. 2011. Find high-quality stock photos that you won't find anywhere else. NCBI BLAST name: ants Rank: subspecies Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard) Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 5 (Invertebrate Mitochondrial) Ang kaliwatan gibahinbahin . 1842. Ang Eciton burchellii sakop sa kahenera nga Eciton, ug kabanay nga murag-sulom. The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Oecologia 142:221-231. 22(1): 111-112. By kin sng kiu "doanh tri", thng xuyn di chuyn . When the ants meet an excessively hot patch, they will accelerate their movement, "shuttling" to minimize their exposure to the heat. A day in the life of an Eciton burchelli colony seen through the eyes of Schneirla and Rettenmeyer begins at dawn, as the first light suffuses the heavily shaded forest floor. [30], The male Eciton burchellii are extremely affected by a fragmented forest habitat. 2017. A novel exocrine gland in the antennal scape of the army ant Eciton burchelli. Mirmecofauna de la reserva ecologica de San Felipe Bacalar. Baer, B. As Thomas Belt put it, "Here and there one of the light-colored officers moves backwards and forwards directing the columns." 36: 319-332 (page 328, see also), Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. Borgmeier T. 1953. entomol. Eciton burchellii. What does eciton burchellii mean? A. Munoz Gutierrez, G. X. Rousseau, R. Alves Silva, G. M. Siqueira, C. L. Caldas dos Santos, F. Veras Silva, T. Sanches Ranzani da Silva, A. Casadei-Ferreira, R. Rosa da Silva, and J. Andrade-Silva. E. burchellii is frequently encountered in ecological and behavioral studies of army ants. Now there exist two colonies: one containing the old queen; the other, the successful virgin, daughter queen. 2014. This kind of brood contains no workers, but, in E. hamatum at least, it consists of about 1,500 males and 6 new queens. Thank you. Lappano (1958) discovered that the labial glands of 'burchelli larvae become fully functional on the eighth or ninth migratory day, about the time raiding activity reaches its peak. Geographic Range. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543. Eciton (9049718083) (cropped).jpg 592 355; 43 KB. Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay. 1916c: 3; Wheeler, W.M. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4). Thanks very much. Use of Premontane Moist Forest and Shade Coffee Agroecosystems by Army Ants in Western Panama. Fast shipping and very good seller. Formigas do Alto Tiete. Dorylinae. 40(8):322-330. 165-174 in: Fernndez, F., Guerrero, R.J., Delsinne, T. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 23. Distribution: Eciton burchellii can be found in tropical jungles in America. These insects have understandably been a prime target for study by naturalists for a long time, from Lund (1831) through Bates, Belt, von Ihering, Mller, and Sumichrast in the last century to Beebe, Wheeler, and many others in more recent times. 2008. As comunidades de formigas de serapilheira nas florestas semidecduas do Parque Estadual do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais. Collecting queens in reasonable, minimally harmful situations is the only thing I will advise for. Bogot: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fsicas y Naturales, 433 pp. 1925a: 2; Santschi, 1925d: 222; Santschi, 1930e: 82; Menozzi, 1935b: 189; Eidmann, 1936a: 28; Borgmeier, 1936: 53; Borgmeier, 1939: 404; Santschi, 1939f: 160; Wheeler, G.C. His results were confirmed and greatly extended in rich studies conducted by C. W. Rettenmeyer (1963a). (d) Frequency-dry weight histogram for a large sample of workers. Psyche 96: 239-256. Am. MacKay. What a stunning piece this is. Eciton burchellii is one of the most studied species, and has typical army ants characteristics. Rosumek, F.B., M.A. She is guided by the odor trail and can follow it all by herself even if the surrounding workers are taken away. 2007. The sudden appearance of tens of thousands of new adult workers has a galvanic effect on their older sisters. Login https://antwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eciton_burchellii&oldid=670083, Knowlton and Kamath (2018) - Many organisms use chemicals to deter enemies. Eciton burchellii is a species of New World army ant in the genus Eciton. Soc. Can you name a report which improved the way I keep my ants which was published in the last 5 years? Eciton burchellii parvispinum. Long-term effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian ant communities. Eventually they are abandoned and left to die. Some arthropods they ignore, such as heavily sclerotized beetles, spiny or hairy caterpillars, and long-legged phalangids (which seem able to stand . Get started for FREE Continue. They capture and transport the prey, choose the bivouac sites, and care for the brood and queen. Ital. Long-term effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian ant communities. Mem. Ulyssea, B.C. Teil. This species, one of the most extensively studied ant species, consists of expansive, organized swarm raids that give it the informal name, Eciton army ant This species displays polymorphic caste features, with the soldier ants having much larger heads and mandibles. Eco-friendly gift boxes, made from 100% recycled cardboard. thesis, The University of Western Ontario. Delsinne, T., Sonet, G., Arias-Penna, T.M. Billen, J.P.J. Forest cover drives leaf litter ant diversity in primary rainforest remnants within human-modified tropical landscapes. 2013. As a result, the pupae eclosed well before the next batch of eggs laid by the host colony hatched, with the result that for several days the host colony was occupied by newly eclosed, callow workers but no larvae. Like most ant species, Eciton burchellii is polymorphic, meaning that features amongst smaller groups within the colony vary in size: a colony contains workers ranging from 3mm to 12mm, with each specific "caste" suited to specialized tasks. Antbase. Try Combster now. This is because each colony has only one or a small number of reproductive queens per colony compared to other species that have a greater number of reproductive individuals per unit area. Migratory behavior was not resumed until the larvae present at the start of the experiments had grown much larger and more active. Especies de hormigas conocidas del Per (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Dunno to that question. By serving as the focal point of the aggregating workers, she literally holds the colony together. Ann. Fernandez, F., Guerrero, R.J., Snchez-Restrepo, A.F. These facultative ant-following . Pp. It is now clear that although Neivamyrmex colonies follow an endogenous cycle of roughly the Eciton type (see Table 16-2), the tempo of their migratory phase is strongly affected by the amount of food they harvest. One first catches from a distance the beautiful crescendo of the bicolored antbird, then closer to the scene of action the characteristic low twittering notes of the antwren and other common frequenters of the raid. If wild animal parks and professionals have failed at keeping them, pretty sure the average ant keeper is going to have massive problems as well. Ant community richness and composition across a gradient from Eucalyptus plantations to secondary Atlantic Forest. Dattilo W. et al. Stylogaster and Calodexia flies are abundant around raiding parties, laying eggs (or injecting larvae) on fleeing cockroaches; of the cockroaches that escape the ants, 5090% are parasitised by the flies. Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil (type locality), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela. This presumably happens most often when the health and attractive power of the old queen begin to fail prior to colony fission. Since work on Eciton physiology is still virtually nonexistent, and experimental evidence of any kind very sparse, one can do no more than reflect on these possibilities as competing hypotheses. Formicidae). It is quite possible that the cycle was put in place genetically and is kept there through natural selection by the advantage it gives in overcoming food shortages. 22(3): 153-170. Among the shapeshifters: parasite-induced morphologies in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and their relevance within the EcoEvoDevo framework. The new queens are fecundated within a few days of their emergence, and almost all of the males disappear within three weeks after that. Biotropica 30: 482-487. [21] The raids never occupy the same area twice, so the trail to each new location is always changing. Nova contribuia~o para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicas (Hym. The migratory phase is triggered at least in part by the emergence of new, callow adult workers. Callithrix humelifer and C. kuhli are the species more frequently reported in E. burchellii raids, with C. humelifer observed to spend several hours picking prey . Bull. Ital. Fenologia dos Voos de Acasalamento em Formigas Tropicais. See list of 3D images. 1,614 posts. Lattke J. E., M. Kaspari, S. ODonnell, and S. Powell. Journal of Biogeography 33:1348-1356, Watkins J. F., II 1976. 45(4): 1641-1648. Led by . Came super quick as well. Raids are conducted along two radial trails from the old bivouac site. This species performs expansive, organized swarm raids that give it the informal name, Eciton army ant. (c) Head width vs. pronotum width allometry for workers. Bull. The double i was subsequently deemed unnecessary in the later 1800s by taxonomists, and hence the name became Eciton burchelli. Chi ny c cc loi sau: Eciton burchellii (Westwood, 1842) 2007. This of course can't be directly projected on all other species of Camponotus but considering that (unless a room is air-conditioned like hell) typical room humidity rarely falls below 40%, yes this does mean most (if not all) Camponotus nests do not need to be hydrated. However, biological systems often evolve so as to rely on endogenous rhythms to make the needed changes, rather than on a close reading of the environment from day to day. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Eciton burchellii foreli Mayr, 1886. Bogot: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fsicas y Naturales, 541 pp. Presentation is amazing. The entire dark-brown conglomerate exudes a musky, somewhat fetid odor. 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