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Polyergus Ent.|pɒlɪˈɜːgəs|
Also polyergus.
[mod.L. (P. A. Latreille 1804, in Nouveau Dict. Hist. Nat. XXIV. 179), f. Gr. πολύεργος hard-working.]
A slave-making ant of the genus so called, found in Europe and North America; = Amazon-ant.
1882J. Lubbock Ants, Bees, & Wasps vii. 180, I presented a slave of Polyergus with a dead fly pinned down. 1908Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 2/1 The polyergus seems to lose even the faculty of making a nest. 1924J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New xiii. 72 Slave-keeping is much more marked among the Amazon Ants, of which the European Polyergus is a good representative. 1945C. P. Haskins Of Ants & Men ix. 175 Not only is Polyergus little interested in its nesting site, but it is compelled to abandon it and to move about at frequent intervals. 1954Borror & DeLong Introd. Study Insects 729 The Polyergus ants are often called amazons. |