Myrmecologische Nachrichten 3: 63-65
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Abstract: An alate queen of Acropyga paleartica Menozzi, 1936 was observed to carry a worker pupa during dis persal for independent colony foundation. The observed behaviour is suspected to represent a redirected activity in connection with the fixed behavioural mechanism of Acropyga to carry a coccoid larva during dispersal, mating, and nest foundation.