✦ LIBER ✦
Exocrine chemistry of the myrmicine ant Zacryptocerus pusillus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
✍ Scribed by E. David Morgan; Sarah J. Keegans; Johan Billen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 487 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0739-4462
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✦ Synopsis
Minor workers of the ant Zacryptocerus pusillus have unusual exocrine secretions in both their mandibular and Dufour glands.
The mandibular glands contain a 3:1 mixture of 4-heptanone and 4-heptanol, a mixture found only in the related species Z÷ varians÷ The Dufour gland contains a mixture of 13 aldehydes from C 9 to C 18 , not previously encountered in ant secretions. The venom glands gave variable results with only nonanal present consistently.