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Lucidus-group Amazon Ants
Polyergus lucidus
Polyergus lucidus is a species of slave-making ant in the subfamily Formicinae endemic to the eastern United States. It is an obligatory social parasite, unable to feed itself or look after its brood and reliant on ants of another species of the genus Formica to undertake these tasks. Parasitic ants are known as "dulotics" (from the Greek δοῦλος doulos, meaning a slave) and the ants they parasitise are known as "hosts".
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Foothills Amazon Ant
speciesPolyergus montivagus
Shining Amazon Ant
speciesPolyergus lucidus
Sanwald's Amazon Ant
speciesPolyergus sanwaldi
Long-horned Amazon Ant
speciesPolyergus longicornis
Florida Amazon Ant
speciesPolyergus oligergus
Ruby Amazon Ant
speciesPolyergus ruber
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1408658.