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Adetomyrma is an endangered  genus of ants endemic to Madagascar. First described in 1993, the genus did not attract much scientific attention until the discovery of an entire colony in 2001. Other...
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The recently discovered Dracula ant is a highly unusual species, so named because of its grisly feeding habits of drinking the blood of its young. First described in 1994, these ants did not attract much scientific attention until the discovery of an ... Home > Threatened Invertebrates - terrestrial and freshwater > Dracula ants...
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Information about the Dracula ants (Adetomyrma venatrix) on ARKive ... Colonies of Dracula ants may contain as many as 10,000 workers, winged males and several wingless queens (4) (5). The workers go out each day to capture prey, which they stun using venom, to bring back to the colony for the larvae to feed upon.
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Dracula Ants: The Missing Link ... Dracula ants, like the newly discovered species in Madagascar, have abdomens that more closely resemble wasps than most other ants. They also behave more like a primitive ant, one that would be more closely related to wasps.
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Fisher’s find, an intact colony of a new type of ant in a rare group he has dubbed Dracula Ants, were living in a rotting log in an unprotected mountain rainforest. The new species may be the evidence evolutionary biologists need to understand the origin and evolution of ants and their social behavior.
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A unique and curious new species of Dracula ants - so-called because they feed on the blood of their young - has been discovered in the rotting leaf litter of a Madagascar forest, and scientists say it will force them to rethink the entire path of ant evolution.
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postscript: If you’d like to see live Dracula Ants, there’s no need to travel all the way to Madagascar.  The centipede predator Amblyopone pallipes is widespread in North America and can be found in rotting wood and under stones in forested habitats.
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Dracula Ant Ants Larvae Adetomyrma Workers Winged Queens Genus Economy. ... Dracula Ants are also notable for their seemingly ancestral morphology; unlike other ants, which have two or three joints between the thorax and abdomen, Adetomyrma species have just one. This single joint may indicate the Dracula Ant to be an...
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Fisher realized his Dracula ants were significant in more ways than one. Unlike other ants, the Dracula ants have a single connection between the thorax and abdomen - a "wasp waist." This morphology suggests the Dracula ants might be the missing evolutionary link between wasps and their descendants, the ants.
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