Female ants display a wide variety of morphological castes, including workers, soldiers,
ergatoid (worker-like) queens and queens. Alternative caste development within a species …

Two new species of the ant genus Myrmecina Curtis, 1829 are described and illustrated
based on the worker and queen castes collected in Sumatra, Indonesia under the names M …

Non‐human animals can exhibit idiosyncratic behaviour across individuals in much in the
same way as humans. Animals with specific personalities may have advantages in some …

Consensus decisions enable group-living organisms to coordinate collective tasks without
the need for complex cognitive abilities or centralized leadership. Systems of nonlinear …

The ability to express different phenotypes can help define species distributions by allowing
access to, and exploitation of, new environments. Social insects employ two markedly …

Caste polyphenism in social insects provides us with excellent opportunities to examine the
plasticity and robustness underlying developmental pathways. Several ant species have …

To optimise behaviour, organisms require information on the quantity of various components
of their environment, and the ability of animals to discriminate quantity has been a subject of …

The ant genus Myrmecina, whose diversity is mostly concentrated in SE-Asia and Oceania,
counts four W-Palearctic species. The extremely euryecious and well-studied Myrmecina …

Coordination of group actions in social organisms is often a self-organised process lacking
central control. These collective behaviours are driven by mechanisms of positive feedback …

1Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, Department of
Forest and Soil Sciences; 2Institute of Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology and …