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Proceratiinae. Pseudomyrmecinae. † Sphecomyrminae. † Zigrasimeciinae. Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.
Oct 5, 2024 · The life cycle of the ant has four stages—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—and typically spans a period of 8 to 10 weeks for worker ants. Queen ant A red ant queen with a cluster of her eggs. At certain times of the year, the winged males and virgin queens fly into the air, where the queen mates with a single male.
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Relationships among major groups within the order Hymenoptera. For details see Branstetter et al. (2017), Blaimer et al. (2023) and Rosa & Melo (2023).
((†Camelomecia,†Camelomecia)'Camelomecia clade (unplaced to family)',((†Baikuris,†Cretomyrma,†Dlusskyidris)'Stem Formicidae (unplaced to subfamily)',(((†Aquilomyrmex,(†Chonidris,†Dhagnathos))'Aquilomyrmex clade',†Dilobops,((†Haidomyrmex,†Haidomyrmodes,†Haidoterminus)'Haidomyrmex subclade',((†Ceratomyrmex,†Linguamyrmex),†Protoceratomyrmex)'Ceratomyr...
Barden, P., Perrichot, V., Wang, B. 2020. Specialized predation drives aberrant morphological integration and diversity in the earliest ants. Current Biology (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.106).Blaimer, B.B., Santos, B.F., Cruaud, A., Gates, M.W., Kula, R.R., Mikó, I., Rasplus, J.-Y., Smith, D.R., Talamas, E.J., Brady, S.G., Buffington, M.L. 2023. Key innovations and the diversification o...Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys...Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).Ants possess several traits that are not characteristic of Apoidea, including an apterous worker caste, the shedding of wings by colony-founding queens and subsequent feeding of larvae on the products of flight muscle histolysis, the rearing of young in communal brood chambers, and www.annualreviews.org • Ant Phylogeny and Evolution 25
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Oct 21, 2013 · Genomic data resolve the phylogenetic relationships of ants, bees, and stinging wasps. •. Ants are revealed to be the sister group of spheciform wasps and bees (Apoidea) •. Typical social wasps (e.g., yellow jackets) are not closely related to ants and bees. •. Clades containing eusocial taxa are interposed among solitary ectoparasitoid ...
- Brian R. Johnson, Marek L. Borowiec, Joanna C. Chiu, Ernest K. Lee, Joel Atallah, Philip S. Ward
- 2013
May 12, 2020 · The timeline of ant evolution begins with an early Hymenopteran fossil showing affinities to the lineage containing both ants and Apoidea. One of these early fossils is Cariridris bipetiolata, a 112–122 million-year-old impression fossil from Brazil. It was once postulated to be the earliest known ant but more likely represents a relative of ...
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Oct 29, 2023 · Family Formicidae (Ants) Synonyms and other taxonomic changes. recent advances in taxonomy summarized in (1), also see (2)(3)(4) Explanation of Names. Formicidae Latreille 1809. from Formica. ant goes back to Old English aemete, aemette(5); emmet is an archaic Modern English variant. Numbers.
