ergatoid meaning in Hindi

Examples

1. Some queens are ergatoid and have no wings, while others have either stubby or completely developed wings.
2. Most species have ergatoid queens, and many have falcate, bowed mandibles and are specialists on isopod prey.
3. Ergatoid queens have replaced winged queens in many species, most notably in the subfamily Ponerinae, but ergatoids also occur in other subfamilies.
4. Known morphology has been seen in any Malagasy species, the queens of which are suspected to be remarkably ergatoid, or perhaps even replaced by gamergates.
5. According to Brand�o et al . ( 2001 ), this distribution pattern may be explained by the limited dispersal mode of ergatoid queens and by the type of nest foundation ( fission of established colonies ).
6. The ergatoid ( wingless reproductive females ) queens emerge from their nest and, like the workers, appress their head onto the ground and elevate their gaster, from which the intersegmental membrane at the back of the abdomen extends.
7. Queens are ergatoid ( i . e . permanently wingless and worker-like ) and, at least in " B . conops ", it is believed that the foundation of new colonies is by fission of established colonies.
8. Unusually for ants, the queens are apterous ( i . e ., wingless ), like workers, and thus these queens are called ergatoid ( i . e ., worker-like ) to be distinct from alate queens that have wings.
9. In a single leaf-litter sample collected in S�o Bonif�cio, Santa Catarina, six workers and two ergatoid gynes very similar to the workers, were captured, which suggests that S . " stali " is polygynous, as already described for other " Sphinctomyrmex " species.