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| Title: | Living Fossils- Ant from Mars that Never Left Earth |
| Authors: | Datta, Sukanya |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Martialis
heureka is a new species of ant discovered in 2003 under leaf litter
at the Empresa Brasileira de
Pesquisa
Agropecuária in Manaus, Brazil by Christian Rabeling, University of Texas, USA.
The name Martialis
heuraka
means “Eureka ant from Mars.” This bizarre-looking ant is a blind,
subterranean predator; pale in colour, 2-3 mm long with large, tweezer-shaped
jaws. |
| Page(s): | 55 |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(09) [September 2010]
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