Meaning

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the ant subfamily Myrmicinae..

Definitions by Sense

1. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the ant subfamily Myrmicinae.
2. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the ant genus Myrmica.
3. (zoology) Any ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae.

Example Sentences

These data have been accumulated from the study of the specialized Myrmicine and Formicine ants of Europe and North America [...]

The discovery of tandem calling with pheromones in Leptothorax throws considerable light on the evolution of chemical recruitment techniques in myrmicine ants generally.

The chemistry of the myrmicine genus Solenopsis is so aberrant that it reduces generalizations about ant venoms to the absurd.

Subfamily Myrmicinae […]Species of myrmicines are most likely to be confused with species of Leptanilla or Tetraponera because of the two-segmented petiole.

The other dominant ant subfamilies were also present but with lesser importance (fig. 1.4). Toward the end of the ponerine expansion (Early Eocene), the myrmicines began to radiate, surpassing the ponerines in biomass and diversity.

The pseudomyrmecines can only be mistaken for myrmicines, but in the former there is always a fully developed promesonotal suture that is fully articulated and flexible in fresh specimens—a character that is always absent from myrmicines.

Word Forms

• more myrmicine
• most myrmicine
• myrmicines

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