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MrILoveTheAnts	FG 129 Plectroctena		Lead	[-]
TAFAMF Addict Posts: 4632 04/21/2012 8:48 PM	Featured Genus 129 is Plectroctena Subfamily: Poneriae Distribution: Africa MrILoveTheAnt's Blog, Youtube, & "Native Plants for Honeybees"
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antdude	Google Links	#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31204 04/21/2012 9:35 PM Borg Ant, Your Forum Overlord & Basic English Cop/Enforcer/Police.	http://www.google.com/search?q=Plectroctena Quote of the Week: Have I told you how much I like ants, huh? Especially fried in a subtle blend of mech fluid and grated gears?" --Rampage to Inferno, "Transmutate" (S2E10) in Transformers (Beast Wars). Ant(Dude) @ The Ant Farm (Personal Web Site), Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL), and The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum.
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blueball1st		#2	[url]	[-]
Adult Worker Ant Posts: 208 04/22/2012 8:36 AM	Finally, a genus that isn't a cryptid.
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TAFAMF Addict Posts: 2435 04/23/2012 2:49 AM LibrariANT	For revisions of this genus: Revision of Bolton, 1974: http://gap.entclub.org/taxonomists/Bolton/revision%20Plectroctena.pdf Update by Bolton and Brown, 2002: http://gap.entclub.org/taxonomists/Bolton/Loboponera.pdf New species by Fisher, 2006: http://gap.entclub.org/taxonomists/Fisher/Fisher%202006.pdf Teleutotje " Tell-oo-toat-yeh " " I am who I am , I think ... "
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blueball1st		#4	[url]	[-]
Adult Worker Ant Posts: 208 04/23/2012 6:36 AM	The genus Myopias seems to share the same unusual mandibles with this genus.
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Doctorant		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3789 04/30/2012 6:18 AM Doc. and Soldier Ant	These ants are cryptic, blueball1st, in the sense that they do not forage in daylight or on the surface, but they are a lot larger than most of the ants we call cryptic. All the species are blind predators of millipedes and possibly other arthropods that live in rotting logs and forest litter - classic ponerine specialist predators, in this case perhaps analogous to Neotropical Thaumatomyrmex. I'm hoping Harpegnathos can post some pictures of live ones from his upcoming trip to Africa this summer. . . Edited 1 time by Doctorant 04/30/2012 10:59 AM.
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blueball1st		#6	[url]	[-]
Adult Worker Ant Posts: 208 05/01/2012 9:10 AM	Are there any ant keepers with Plectroctena? Is it possible to keep them in captivity?
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batspiderfish		#7	[url]	[-]
Henchant Posts: 1249 05/07/2012 6:55 PM	Those mandibles look like can-openers!
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Posts: 3789 05/08/2012 12:37 PM Doc. and Soldier Ant	They're millipede openers!
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