Queen Specific Exocrine Glands in Legionary Ants and Their Possible Function in Sexual Selection.
The colonies of army ants and some other legionary ant species have single, permanently read more wingless queens with massive post petioles and large gasters.Such highly modified queens are called dichthadiigynes.This paper presents the unusually rich exocrine gland endowment of dichthadiigynes, which is not found in queens of other ant species.It