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#1 Offline AntsMAN - Posted August 4 2016 - 5:46 AM

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Something else to share.

 

A new species of spiny ant with intricate, wrinkled skin has been found in the Singaporean rainforest.

Myrmecina magnificens, named for its beauty, lives in leaf litter on the forest floor and probably preys on tiny mites, said discoverer Mark Wong, an ecologist and independent researcher in Singapore. It has skin with a fingerprint-whorl pattern and delicate golden spines that point, unusually, toward the front of its body.

"Some people say it looks a little bit like a fearsome raisin," Wong told Live Science.

 

http://www.livescien...int-whorls.html

 

 


Current queens/colonies

Camponotus novaeboracensis x2

Camponotus pennsylvanicus x2

Camponotus herculeanus x1

Formica sp. x1

Lasius americanus x1  (Lasius alienus)

Lasius neoniger x1

Crematogastor cerasi x1

Myrmica sp. x1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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