Temporary Parasitism
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Temporary social parasites establish new colonies with the assistance of a host species. A queen of the parasite enters the nest of the host and chemically tricks the host workers into adopting her. The intruding queen kills or drives off the host queen and begins to lay her own eggs. Host workers remain in the colony and tend both their own eggs and the eggs of the new queen. Over time the host workers are replaced with workers from the new queen and the colony becomes completely populated by the new queen's offspring.
See Lasius umbratus and Colony Founding in Polyrhachis lamellidens for details on the natural history of temporarily parasitic ants.
Known Temporary Parasites
Temporary Parasite | Host | Locality | Source | Notes |
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Aphaenogaster tennesseensis | Aphaenogaster fulva | |||
Aphaenogaster tennesseensis | Aphaenogaster picea | |||
Aphaenogaster tennesseensis | Aphaenogaster rudis | |||
Dorymyrmex smithi | Dorymyrmex insanus | |||
Formica adamsi | Formica neorufibarbis | |||
Formica bruni | unknown | |||
Formica dakotensis | Formica fusca | |||
Formica dakotensis | Formica lepida | |||
Formica dakotensis | Formica montana | |||
Formica dakotensis | Formica pallidefulva | |||
Formica dakotensis | Formica subsericea | |||
Formica difficilis | Formica incerta | |||
Formica dirksi | Formica subaenescens | |||
Formica exsecta | Formica fusca | |||
Formica exsecta | Formica lemani | |||
Formica fennica | unknown | |||
Formica foreli | unkown | primary host likely to be ''F. fusca'', ''F. cunicularia'' or ''F. rufibarbis'' | ||
Formica forsslundi | Formica transkaucasica | |||
Formica fukaii | Formica japonica | Kubota & Kondoh, 1954; Hayashida, 1963 | ||
Formica fukaii | Formica lemani | Yamaoka, 1977 | ||
Formica indianensis | unknown | |||
Formica knighti | Formica subsericea | needs confirmation | ||
Formica manchu | unknown | |||
Formica mesasiatica | unknown | |||
Formica microgyna | Formica argentea | Gregg, 1963; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Formica microgyna | Formica fusca | Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Formica microgyna | Formica lasioides | Gregg, 1963; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Formica microgyna | Formica neogagates | Gregg, 1963; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Formica morsei | unknown | |||
Formica nepticula | unknown | |||
Formica nevadensis | unknown | |||
Formica obscuripes | Formica pacifica | |||
Formica pisarskii | unknown | |||
Formica postoculata | unknown | |||
Formica pressilabris | Formica lemani | |||
Formica querquetulana | Formica fusca | |||
Formica rufa | Formica fusca | |||
Formica scitula | unknown | |||
Formica spatulata | unknown | |||
Formica suecica | Formica fusca | needs confirmation | ||
Formica suecica | Formica lemani | |||
Formica suecica | Formica transkaucasica | |||
Formica ulkei | Formica fusca | |||
Formica uralensis | Formica transkaucasica | |||
Lasius arizonicus | unknown | |||
Lasius bicornis | unknown | |||
Lasius californicus | unknown | |||
Lasius carniolicus | Lasius alienus | |||
Lasius carniolicus | Lasius flavus | |||
Lasius carniolicus | Lasius piliferus | |||
Lasius citrinus | Lasius brunneus | |||
Lasius citrinus | Lasius niger | needs confirmation | ||
Lasius claviger | Lasius americanus | |||
Lasius claviger | Lasius neoniger | |||
Lasius coloradensis | unknown | |||
Lasius distinguendus | Lasius alienus | |||
Lasius fuliginosus | Lasius alienus | |||
Lasius fuliginosus | Lasius brunneus | |||
Lasius fuliginosus | Lasius mixtus | |||
Lasius fuliginosus | Lasius niger | |||
Lasius fuliginosus | Lasius rabaudi | |||
Lasius fuliginosus | Lasius umbratus | |||
Lasius interjectus | unknown | |||
Lasius jensi | Lasius alienus | |||
Lasius latipes | Lasius americanus | Ellison et al., 2012; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Lasius latipes | Lasius crypticus | Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Lasius latipes | Lasius interjectus | Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Lasius latipes | Lasius neoniger | Ellison et al., 2012; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 | ||
Lasius meridionalis | Lasius alienus | Europe | Collingwood, 1979 | |
Lasius meridionalis | Lasius hayashi | Japan | Japanese Ant Image Database | needs confirmation |
Lasius meridionalis | Lasius japonicus | Japan | Japanese Ant Image Database | needs confirmation |
Lasius meridionalis | Lasius niger | Europe | Collingwood, 1979 | |
Lasius meridionalis | Lasius psammophilus | Europe | Collingwood, 1979 | |
Lasius mexicanus | unknown | |||
Lasius minutus | Lasius americanus | Ellison et al., 2012 | ||
Lasius minutus | Lasius pallitarsis | Ellison et al., 2012 | ||
Lasius mixtus | Lasius alienus | Collingwood, 1979 | ||
Lasius mixtus | Lasius niger | Collingwood, 1979 | ||
Lasius murphyi | Lasius neoniger | |||
Lasius occidentalis | unknown | |||
Lasius orientalis | Lasius flavus | |||
Lasius plumopilosus | Lasius claviger | Ellison et al., 2012 | ||
Lasius pogonogynus | unknown | |||
Lasius pubescens | unknown | |||
Lasius rabaudi | Lasius niger | |||
Lasius reginae | Lasius alienus | |||
Lasius reginae | Lasius myops | |||
Lasius sabularum | Lasius niger | |||
Lasius spathepus | Lasius japonicus | Japanese Ant Image Database | needs confirmation | |
Lasius speculiventris | Lasius minutus | Ellison et al., 2012 | ||
Lasius subglaber | unknown | |||
Lasius subumbratus | Lasius neoniger | |||
Lasius subumbratus | Lasius pallitarsis | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius alienus | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius brunneus | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius emarginatus | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius neoniger | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius niger | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius pallitarsis | |||
Lasius umbratus | Lasius psammophilus | |||
Myrmica bibikoffi | Myrmica sabuleti | Radchenko & Elmes, 2003 | ||
Myrmica semiparasitica | Myrmica punctiventris | |||
Polyrhachis lamellidens | Camponotus japonicus | Kohriba, 1963 | ||
Polyrhachis lamellidens | Camponotus kiusiuensis | Sakai, 1990 | Needs confirmation | |
Polyrhachis lamellidens | Camponotus obscuripes | Sakai, 1990 | ||
Pseudomyrmex seminole | Pseudomyrmex pallidus | Ward, 1985 | ||
Rossomyrmex proformicarum | unknown | |||
Strongylognathus afer | unknown | |||
Strongylognathus minutus | unknown | |||
Strongylognathus pisarskii | unknown | |||
Strongylognathus potanini | unknown | |||
Strongylognathus tylonus | unknown |
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