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Formica gnava
Formica gnava is a species of ant in the genus Formica, family Formicidae. It serves as a host species for the obligatory slave-making ant Polyergus breviceps, with its workers being enslaved to rear Polyergus offspring in mixed-species nests. The species exhibits strong nestmate recognition, with workers preferentially adopting conspecific pupae and rejecting or consuming pupae of other host species. Free-living workers show lower adoption rates of parasite pupae compared to enslaved workers.
ant Formicidae host-species slave-making-ant-host social-parasite nestmate-recognition
Rhopalosoma nearcticum
Rhopalosoma nearcticum is a parasitoid wasp in the family Rhopalosomatidae. Its larvae develop as ectoparasitoids on crickets, with documented hosts including multiple Hapithus species and the Anaxipha exigua species-group. The species is found in the Americas from the United States to Brazil, though phylogenetic studies suggest at least two genetically distinct Rhopalosoma clades exist in America north of Mexico.
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Zale insuda
Desert Peaks Zale
Zale insuda is a moth species in the family Erebidae, first described by Smith in 1908. It is known from North America, where it occurs as a host for the parasitoid wasp Ammophila nigricans. The species has been assigned MONA/Hodges number 8696, a standardized numbering system for North American Lepidoptera.
Lepidoptera Erebidae North-America MONA-8696 host-species parasitoid-wasp-prey