Forelius pusillus

<h2 id="behaviour">Behaviour</h2>
<p>Forelius pusillus is noted to perform "pre-emptive defensive self-sacrifice", where a group of ants leave the security of the nest after sealing the entrance from the outside each evening.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Forelius pusillus at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Cuezzo, F. 2000.  Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35: 197-275 (page 263, Raised to species and senior synonym of tucumanus) <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Tofilski, Adam; Couvillon, Margaret J.; Evison, Sophie E. F.; Helanterä, Heikki; Robinson, Elva J. H.; Ratnieks, Francis L. W. (2008-11-01). "Preemptive Defensive Self‐Sacrifice by Ant Workers". The American Naturalist. 172 (5): E239 – E243. doi:10.1086/591688. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 18928332. S2CID 7052340. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Forelius pusillus open-in-new

Forelius pusillus