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|image = Forelius pusillus casent0173739 profile 1.jpg |
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|image_caption = ''Forelius pusillus'' worker |
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|regnum = [[Animal]]ia |
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|phylum = [[Arthropod]]a |
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|classis = [[Insect]]a |
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|ordo = [[Hymenoptera]] |
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|familia = [[Formicidae]] |
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|subfamilia = [[Dolichoderinae]] |
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|genus = ''[[Forelius]]'' |
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|species = '''''F. pusillus''''' |
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|binomial = ''Forelius pusillus'' |
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*''Neoforelius tucumanus'' <small>Kusnezov, 1953</small> |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Forelius |
| Species: | F. pusillus
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| Forelius pusillus Santschi, 1922
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Forelius pusillus is a species of ant in the genus Forelius. Described by Santschi in 1922, the species is endemic to South America.[1]
Behaviour
[edit]Forelius pusillus is noted to perform "pre-emptive defensive self-sacrifice", where a group of ants leave the security of the nest after sealing the entrance from the outside each evening.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35: 197-275 (page 263, Raised to species and senior synonym of tucumanus)
- ^ Tofilski, Adam; Couvillon, Margaret J.; Evison, Sophie E. F.; Helanterä, Heikki; Robinson, Elva J. H.; Ratnieks, Francis L. W. (2008-11-01). "Preemptive Defensive Self‐Sacrifice by Ant Workers". The American Naturalist. 172 (5): E239–E243. doi:10.1086/591688. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 18928332. S2CID 7052340.
External links
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Media related to Forelius pusillus at Wikimedia Commons
