单词 | thief-ant |
释义 | > as lemmasthief-ant thief-ant n. a small ant of the genus Solenopsis which raids the nests of other ants to steal food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Solenopsis (thief-ant) fire ant1796 thief-ant1904 1904 W. M. Wheeler in Amer. Naturalist 36 952 The walls of the galleries in some of the formicaries were tenanted by teeming colonies of the..thief ant. 1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New xiv. 79 A little thief-ant, Solenopsis, that..burgles the beetles' houses. 1971 E. O. Wilson Insect Societies xix. 357/1 Colonies of the ‘thief ants’..often nest next to larger ant species. < as lemmas |
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