78 relations: Aeolothripidae, Aggressive mimicry, Ant, Ant spider, Anthicidae, Anthoboscus, Aphantochilus, Aphid, Aposematism, Army ant, Arthropod, Badisis, Batesian mimicry, Bird, Black carpenter ant, Black garden ant, Caliscelidae, Camouflage, Carpenter ant, Chemical mimicry, Cosmophasis, Crematogaster scutellaris, Cyrtinus pygmaeus, Cyrtophorus, Eciton, Eciton burchellii, Eciton hamatum, Elaiosome, Electron microscope, Euderces, Extatosoma tiaratum, Fly, Formica, Formicinae, Formiscurra, Franklinothrips, Halteres, Hemiptera, Instar, Jumping spider, Lasius, Leptomyrmex, Longhorn beetle, Mallocera, Mallocera spinicollis, Mantidae, Micropezidae, Mimicry, Miridae, Mite, ..., Myrmarachne, Myrmarachne melanotarsa, Myrmecochory, Myrmecoris gracilis, Myrmica, Neoclytus, Nocturnality, Oecophylla smaragdina, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Pheromone, Predation, Pseudomyrmex, Richardiidae, Rove beetle, Sac spider, Sepsisoma, Sphecotypus, Syringogaster, Tarachodes, Tarachodes afzelii, Tettigoniidae, Thomisidae, Thrips, Tillomorpha, Uropodidae, Wasp, Weaver ant. Expand index (28 more) »
Aeolothripidae
The Aeolothripidae are a family of thrips.
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Aggressive mimicry
Aggressive mimicry is a form of mimicry in which predators, parasites or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their prey or host.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Ant spider
Ant spiders are members of the family Zodariidae.
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Anthicidae
The Anthicidae are a family of beetles that resemble ants.
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Anthoboscus
Anthoboscus is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species.
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Aphantochilus
Aphantochilus is a small genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders from Central and South America.
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Aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
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Aposematism
Aposematism (from Greek ἀπό apo away, σῆμα sema sign) is a term coined by Edward Bagnall PoultonPoulton, 1890.
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Army ant
The name army ant (or legionary ant or marabunta) is applied to over 200 ant species, in different lineages, due to their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids", in which huge numbers of ants forage simultaneously over a certain area.
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Arthropod
An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.
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Badisis
Badisis is a stilt-legged fly genus with only one known species, Badisis ambulans.
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Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Black carpenter ant
The black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) is a species of carpenter ant.
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Black garden ant
The black garden ant (Lasius niger), also known as the common black ant, is a formicine ant, the type species of the subgenus Lasius, found all over Europe and in some parts of North America, South America, Australia, Asia and Australasia.
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Caliscelidae
Caliscelidae is a family of planthoppers, sap-sucking insects that belong to the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha and superfamily Fulgoroidea.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).
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Carpenter ant
Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants indigenous to many forested parts of the world.
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Chemical mimicry
Chemical mimicry is a type of biological mimicry.
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Cosmophasis
Cosmophasis is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
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Crematogaster scutellaris
Crematogaster scutellaris is a species of ants belonging to the family Formicidae subfamily Myrmicinae.
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Cyrtinus pygmaeus
Cyrtinus pygmaeus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.
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Cyrtophorus
Cyrtophorus verrucosus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Cyrtophorus.
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Eciton
Eciton is a New World army ant genus that contains the most familiar species of army ants.
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Eciton burchellii
Eciton burchellii is a species of New World army ant in the genus Eciton.
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Eciton hamatum
Eciton hamatum is a species of army ant in the subfamily Dorylinae; it is found from Mexico to central Brazil and Bolivia.
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Elaiosome
Elaiosomes (Greek élaion "oil" and sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species.
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Electron microscope
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination.
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Euderces
Euderces is a genus of longhorn beetles.
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Extatosoma tiaratum
Extatosoma tiaratum, commonly known as the giant prickly stick insect, the spiny leaf insect, Extatosoma tiaratum tiaratum* (Macleay, 1827), "Macleay's Spectre/ Giant Prickly Stick Insect" Macleay's spectre, A guide to the stick insects of Australia or the Australian walking stick, is a large species of stick insect endemic to Australia.
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Fly
True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".
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Formica
Formica is a genus of ants of the family Formicidae, commonly known as wood ants, mound ants, thatching ants, and field ants.
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Formicinae
The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development.
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Formiscurra
Formiscurra is a genus of planthopper in the family Caliscelidae with a single species Formiscurra indicus found in southern India.
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Franklinothrips
Franklinothrips is a genus of thrips with pantropical distribution.
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Halteres
In dipterous insects, halteres (singular halter or haltere) are minute dumbbell-shaped organs which have been modified from hindwings to provide a means of encoding body rotations during flight.
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Hemiptera
The Hemiptera or true bugs are an order of insects comprising some 50,000 to 80,000 species of groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, and shield bugs.
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Instar
An instar (from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached.
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Jumping spider
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae.
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Lasius
Lasius is a genus of formicine ants.
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Leptomyrmex
Leptomyrmex, or spider ants, is a genus of ants and a distinctive member of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae.
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Longhorn beetle
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae; also known as long-horned or longhorn beetles or longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body.
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Mallocera
Mallocera is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species.
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Mallocera spinicollis
Mallocera spinicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.
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Mantidae
Mantidae is the largest family of the order Mantodea, commonly known as praying mantises; most are tropical or subtropical.
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Micropezidae
The Micropezidae are a moderate-sized family of acalyptrate muscoid flies in the insect order Diptera, comprising about 500 species in about 50 genera and five subfamilies worldwide, (except New Zealand and Macquarie Island).
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Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is a similarity of one organism, usually an animal, to another that has evolved because the resemblance is selectively favoured by the behaviour of a shared signal receiver that can respond to both.
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Miridae
The Miridae are a large and diverse insect family at one time known by the taxonomic synonym Capsidae.
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Mite
Mites are small arthropods belonging to the class Arachnida and the subclass Acari (also known as Acarina).
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Myrmarachne
Myrmarachne is a genus of jumping spiders which imitate an ant by waving their front legs in the air to simulate antennae.
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Myrmarachne melanotarsa
Myrmarachne melanotarsa, the dark-footed ant-spider, is an African jumping spider found around Lake Victoria in Africa.
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Myrmecochory
Myrmecochory ((sometimes myrmechory); from mýrmēks and χορεία khoreíā "circular dance") is seed dispersal by ants, an ecologically significant ant-plant interaction with worldwide distribution.
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Myrmecoris gracilis
Myrmecoris gracilis is a species of flightless Hemipteran bug from the family Miridae.
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Myrmica
Myrmica is a genus of ants within the subfamily Myrmicinae.
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Neoclytus
Neoclytus is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Oecophylla smaragdina
Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include weaver ant, green ant, green tree ant, and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in tropical Asia and Australia.
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Orthoptera
Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts and crickets, including closely related insects such as the katydids and wetas.
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Phasmatodea
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects in Europe and Australasia; stick-bugs, walking sticks or bug sticks in the United States and Canada; or as phasmids, ghost insects or leaf insects (generally the family Phylliidae).
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Pheromone
A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω phero "to bear" and hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμή "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Pseudomyrmex
Pseudomyrmex is a genus of stinging, wasp-like ants in the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae.
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Richardiidae
The Richardiidae are a family of Diptera in the superfamily Tephritoidea.
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Rove beetle
The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdomens exposed.
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Sac spider
The sac spiders of the family Clubionidae have a very confusing taxonomic history.
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Sepsisoma
Sepsisoma is a genus of flies in the family Richardiidae.
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Sphecotypus
Sphecotypus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders in the family Corinnidae, containing three species.
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Syringogaster
Syringogaster is a genus of small (4 to 6 mm) ant-mimicking flies with a petiolate abdomen, a long prothorax, a swollen and spiny hind femur, and reduced head size and large eyes.
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Tarachodes
The bark mantises and ground mantises (genus Tarachodes) are praying mantises of the family Tarachodidae that are native to the Afrotropics.
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Tarachodes afzelii
Tarachodes afzelii, commonly known as Tanzanian ground mantis, is a species of praying mantis in the genus Tarachodes.
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Tettigoniidae
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called bush crickets (in the UK), katydids (in the USA), or long-horned grasshoppers (mostly obsolete).
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Thomisidae
The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 175 genera and over 2,100 species.
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Thrips
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (most are 1 mm long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts.
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Tillomorpha
Tillomorpha is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species.
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Uropodidae
Uropodidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
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Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.
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Weaver ant
Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mimicry