Dracula ants  (Adetomyrma venatrix)

Authentication

Authenticated (20/06/2006) by Dr. Brian Fisher, Entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences; expert on African and Malagasy ants; and AntWeb Project Leader.
http://www.antweb.org/

Glossary

Endemic: A species or taxonomic group that is only found in one limited geographic area.

References

  1. IUCN Red List (May, 2006)
    http://www.redlist.org
  2. USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education). (2004) Picnic pests or ecological marvels? Ants—who have roamed the Earth since the days of the dinosaur—are expert farmers, fearsome warriors, voracious meat-eaters, and omnipresent socialites. Most of all, however, they are virtually indestructible. USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 0: 0.
  3. Perlman, D. (2001) Discovery of Blood-Sucking Ant Species Scrambles Some Theories. San Francisco Chronicle, 2001: 0. Available at:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/15/MN138629.DTL
  4. Factbug.org (March, 2006)
    http://www.factbug.org/cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=557666
  5. Science Now (March, 2006)
    http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/headline_science/dracula_ants.html
  6. Everything2 (March, 2006)
    http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1232501
  7. The Ants (The University of North Carolina) (March, 2006)
    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hedlund/dev/ants/GenusPages/Ponerinae/Genus9-long.html
  8. Fisher, B. (2006) Pers. Comm.