amblyoponine

English

Noun

amblyoponine (plural amblyoponines)

1. Any ant of the subfamily Amblyoponinae.
   • 2016 January 23, “Phylogeography in Response to Reproductive Strategies and Ecogeographic Isolation in Ant Species on Madagascar: Genus Mystrium (Formicidae: Amblyoponinae)”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The workers of the genus Mystrium can be distinguished easily from other amblyoponine genera by their characteristic head shape and mandibles; however, in some species, morphological variation within castes in body size and shape, setae or body sculpture is remarkably high, while differences among species can be so slight as to be confounding for taxonomists [40 ].