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Figure 5. Polyxenidae before and after 'treatment' by a T. contumax worker, a) untouched millipede, b) millipede after full strip (note that in this particular case the posterior tuft of setae has been completely removed by the ant).

Brandão, C. R. F.; Diniz, J. L. M.; Tomotake, E. M. 1991. Thaumatomyrmex strips millipedes for prey: a novel predatory behaviour in ants, and the first case of sympatry in the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Soc. 38: 335-344 PDF

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