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Temnothorax Pilagens
''Temnothorax pilagens'' (from Latin: ''pilare'', "to pluck", "plunder", "pillage") is a small Nearctic species of slave-making ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It occurs in northeastern United States. It raids the acorn castles of other insects ('' Temnothorax longispinosus'' and '' Temnothorax ambiguous'') and captures them as slaves and has been nicknamed the pillage ant. Habitat and distribution The species is known from the north-eastern parts of the United States and possibly south-eastern Canada. They live in forests, woodlands and parks. Preferentially wooded sites with little understory, and a high density of suitable nest sites, such as acorns, hickory nuts and sticks. Occurrence is patchy and depends on high density of suitable host populations; so far only known from three sites in the northern US: Niquette Bay State Park (Vermont), E.N. Huyck Preserve ( Rensselaerville, New York) and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Empire, Michigan). In all three populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rensselaerville, New York
Rensselaerville () is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 1,826 at the 2020 census. The town is named after Stephen Van Rensselaer. History Rensselaerville was once part of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck; as such, the people who farmed the land were technically leaseholders of the patroon under a feudal system, first as part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, then under the English colony, and then U.S. state, of New York. Some of the earliest settlement in Rensselaerville was along the five Native American paths that crossed the town in the early 18th century. The southwestern corner along one of these, that connected the Hudson River to the Schoharie Valley was the first section of the town to be settled, this would be ''circa'' 1712. This path was also the one used during wars between the Stockbridge Indians and those at Schoharie. In 1787, the patroon had a survey and census taken in order to enroll squatters and collect the quitrent req ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insects Described In 2014
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. Insect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorax (insect Anatomy)
The thorax is the midsection ( tagma) of the hexapod body (insects and entognathans). It holds the head, legs, wings and abdomen. It is also called mesosoma or cephalothorax in other arthropods. It is formed by the prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax and comprises the scutellum; the cervix, a membrane that separates the head from the thorax; and the pleuron, a lateral sclerite of the thorax. In dragonflies and damselflies the mesothorax and metathorax are fused together to form the synthorax. In some insect pupae, like the mosquitoes', the head and thorax can be fused in a cephalothorax. Members of suborder Apocrita (wasps, ants and bees) in the order Hymenoptera have the first segment of the abdomen fused with the thorax, which is called the propodeum. The head is connected to the thorax by the occipital foramen, enabling a wide range of motion for the head. In most flying insects, the thorax allows for the use of asynchronous muscles Asynchronous muscles are muscles in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protomognathus Americanus
''Temnothorax americanus'' is a species of slave-maker ant in the genus ''Temnothorax''. The ants are 2–3 mm in size, and Endemism, endemic to the northeastern United States and adjacent Canadian regions. They do not forage for food, but instead 'scout workers' from the colony seek out nearby host colonies of ants (e.g. ''Temnothorax longispinosus''), steal larvae and bring them back to their own colony. A small ''T. americanus'' colony could consist of a queen, two to five workers and thirty to sixty slaves. In a study published in ''Animal Behaviour (journal), Animal Behaviour'', researchers showed that ''T. americanus'' scouts target stronger colonies over weaker ones to steal larvae from. It was formerly placed as the Monotypic taxon, sole member of the genus ''Protomognathus''. References External links * Myrmicinae Slave-making ants Hymenoptera of North America Insects of the United States Insects described in 1895 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
