雄蚁,头圆小,上颚不发达,触角细长。雄蚁体长约5.5毫米,有发达的生殖器官和外生殖器,主要职能就是婚飞时与雌蚁交配,交配时期有翅膀。 交配结束后,翅膀会脱落,雌蚁会独自产卵建立群体变成蚁后,而雄蚁则离群死去。不过有意思的是和蚂蚁社会性相同的白蚁,在雄蚁与雌蚁婚飞交配后,雄蚁不会死亡,会与雌蚁筑巢生育,变成蚁王和蚁后,相伴终生。
但是总的讲来,每一种蚂蚁都有三种主要类型;雌蚁、雄蚁和工蚁。
But in general, each kind has ants of three main types: queens, males and workers.
蚂蚁一种群体生活的蚁科昆虫,特征为只有雄蚁和生殖力强的雌蚁有蚁翅,生活在具有复杂群体组织的群落中。
Any of various social insects of the family Formicidae, characteristically having wings only in the males and fertile females and living in colonies that have a complex social organization.
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