Army ants

DJC Kronauer - Encyclopedia of social insects, 2021 - Springer
The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000
described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …

Foraging and feeding are independently regulated by social and personal hunger in the clonal raider ant

V Chandra, DJC Kronauer - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2021 - Springer
Ant colonies must assess the internal states of their members and coordinate their
responses to changes in state. One important example of this is the sensing of colony …

[PDF][PDF] Colony composition, brood production and caste dimorphism in two species of the doryline genus Lioponera in the Oriental tropics (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

F Ito, W Jaitrong, R Hashim, R Mizuno - Asian Myrmecology, 2018 - researchgate.net
Recent phylogenetic research indicates that the true army ants (eg Aenictus, Dorylus, Eciton,
Neivamyrmex) belong to the subfamily Dorylinae, together with several non-army ant genera …

The adaptive significance of phasic colony cycles in army ants

S Garnier, DJC Kronauer - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Army ants are top arthropod predators in tropical forests around the world. The colonies of
many army ant species undergo stereotypical behavioral and reproductive cycles …

Mechanisms for the Evolution of Superorganismality in Ants

V Chandra - 2021 - digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu
Ant colonies appear to behave as superorganisms; they exhibit very high levels of within-
colony cooperation, and very low levels of within-colony conflict. The evolution of such …