Weaver ant, the Glossary
Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini.[1]
Table of Contents
59 relations: Afrotropical realm, Ant, Arboreal locomotion, Arthropod, Australia, Biological pest control, Broome, Western Australia, Camponotus (Dendromyrmex), Carpenter ant, Egg, Entomophagy in humans, Eocene Okanagan Highlands, Eusociality, Formic acid, Frederick Smith (entomologist), Fruit, Gaster (insect anatomy), Hemiptera, Herbivore, Honeydew (secretion), Hymenoptera, India, Insect, Insects as feed, Insects as food, James Cook, Johan Christian Fabricius, Joseph Banks, Larva, Leafhopper, Melanesia, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Multimodal distribution, Myrmaplata plataleoides, Nanfang Caomu Zhuang, Oecophylla longinoda, Oecophylla smaragdina, Offspring, Pesticide, Petiole (insect anatomy), Pierre André Latreille, Polyrhachis, Probability, Protein, Queen ant, Queensland, Scale insect, Self-organization, Silk, Southeast Asia, ... Expand index (9 more) »
Afrotropical realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
Arboreal locomotion
Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.
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Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms.
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Broome, Western Australia
Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth.
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Camponotus (Dendromyrmex)
Dendromyrmex is a subgenus of carpenter ants.
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Carpenter ant
Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers) indigenous to many forested parts of the world.
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Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
Entomophagy in humans
Entomophagy in humans or human entomophagy describes the consumption of insects (entomophagy) by humans in a cultural and biological context.
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Eocene Okanagan Highlands
The Eocene Okanagan Highlands or Eocene Okanogan Highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span a transect of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, United States.
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Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.
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Formic acid
Formic acid, systematically named methanoic acid, is the simplest carboxylic acid, and has the chemical formula HCOOH and structure.
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Frederick Smith (entomologist)
Frederick Smith (30 December 1805 – 16 February 1879) was a British entomologist who worked at the zoology department of the British Museum from 1849, specialising in the Hymenoptera.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
Gaster (insect anatomy)
The gaster is the bulbous posterior portion of the metasoma found in hymenopterans of the suborder Apocrita (bees, wasps and ants).
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Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Honeydew (secretion)
Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids, some scale insects, and many other true bugs and some other insects as they feed on plant sap.
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Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Insects as feed
Insects as feed are insect species used as animal feed, either for livestock, including aquaculture, or as pet food.
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Insects as food
Insects as food or edible insects are insect species used for human consumption.
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James Cook
Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
Johan Christian Fabricius
Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others.
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Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
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Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Leafhopper
Leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae.
Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.
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Multimodal distribution
In statistics, a multimodal distribution is a probability distribution with more than one mode (i.e., more than one local peak of the distribution).
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Myrmaplata plataleoides
Myrmaplata plataleoides, also called the red weaver-ant mimicking jumper, is a jumping spider that mimics the Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) in morphology and behaviour.
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Nanfang Caomu Zhuang
The (c. 304 CE) Nanfang caomu zhuang (南方草木狀 Plants of the Southern Regions), attributed to the Western Jin dynasty scholar and botanist Ji Han (嵇含, 263-307), is a Flora describing the plants of Nanyue and Jiaozhi, present-day South China and northern Vietnam.
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Oecophylla longinoda
Oecophylla longinoda (common name weaver ant) is a species of arboreal ant found in the forested regions of tropical Africa. Weaver ant and Oecophylla longinoda are Formicinae.
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Oecophylla smaragdina
Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include Asian weaver ant, weaver ant, green ant, green tree ant, semut rangrang, semut kerangga, and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in tropical Asia and Australia. Weaver ant and Oecophylla smaragdina are Formicinae.
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Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
Petiole (insect anatomy)
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and wasps in the suborder Apocrita.
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Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.
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Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis is a genus of formicine ants found in the Old World with over 600 species. Weaver ant and Polyrhachis are Formicinae and taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist).
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Probability
Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Queen ant
A queen ant (formally known as a gyne) is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; she is usually the mother of all the other ants in that colony.
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
Scale insect
Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha.
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Self-organization
Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system.
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Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Vestigiality
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.
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Weaver ant
Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini. Weaver ant and Weaver ant are Formicinae and taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist).
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author.
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Where the Green Ants Dream (Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen) is a 1984 English-language West German film directed and co-written by Werner Herzog, made in Australia.
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Yeppoon
Yeppoon is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_ant
Also known as Green Ant, Green ants, Oecophylla, Oecophyllini, Weaver ants.
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