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Vespoidea
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TL;DR: The contrasting behavior of G. ingeborgae with these two prey taxa is described, and a crude substitution experiment suggests that the cyanide system, perhaps acting through it biochemical concomitants, serves as the major kairomone directing this ant’s hunting behavior.
Abstract: Gnamptogenys lineolata from Republica Dominicana and G ingeborgae from Cis-Andean Colombia are described as new. The latter species was found on one occasion associated with the body rings of a small millipede, and observations of this ant in a laboratory artificial nest in the U. S. showed that it would hunt, kill, and provision its nest with a local polydesmid defended by a hydrogen cyanide-benzaldehyde-phenol allomone combination, but rejected julid quinone-defended millipedes. The contrasting behavior of G. ingeborgae with these two prey taxa is described, and a crude substitution experiment suggests that the cyanide system, perhaps acting through it biochemical concomitants, serves as the major kairomone directing this ant’s hunting behavior.
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