Ravoux's slavemaker ant

Ravoux's slavemaker ant
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Genus:	Myrmoxenus
Species:	M. ravouxi
Binomial name
Myrmoxenus ravouxi (André, 1896)

Ravoux's slavemaker ant (Myrmoxenus ravouxi) is a species of ant endemic to Europe. The species are helotistic, that is, they oppress another species of ant in order to sustain their colony.^[1] The queen will fake death to entice ants from another colony to drag her back to their nest, where she awakens and kills the nest's original queen. She will then cover herself in the dead queen's pheromones, and will begin producing eggs. The slavemaker ants then overrun the colony and then find a new colony to take over.

See also

• Formica sanguinea

References

• Role of early experience in ant enslavement: a comparative analysis of a host and a non-host species, Rumsaïs Blatrix and Claire Sermage, Front Zool. 2005; 2: 13. Published online 2005 August 2. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-2-13.
• Social Insects Specialist Group 1996. Epimyrma ravouxi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2007-07-31.
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1. ^ http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent525/close/SlaveAnt.html

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