formicine

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Formicine males often bear a certain resemblance to workers - the antennae, for example, are geniculate - while Dolichoderine males are typically pleisiomorphic, looking much more poneromorph than formicine.

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  1. Same as formicate. Every trading vessel in the tropics has its formicine fauna, and cannot help acting as a transporter of all sorts of ants. H. O. Forbes, Eastern Archipelago, p. 31.

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  • Formicine males often bear a certain resemblance to workers - the antennae, for example, are geniculate - while Dolichoderine males are typically pleisiomorphic, looking much more poneromorph than formicine. —  WordPress.com News
  • A moment before, hundreds of ants were trudging around a tiny pool, the water lined with ant handrails, and in shallow places, veritable formicine pontoons, -- large ants which stood up to their bodies in water, with the booty-laden host passing over them. —  Edge of the Jungle
 

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