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Mirror turtle ant
Species of ant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mirror turtle ants (Cephalotes specularis) are a species of ant that mimic other, unrelated ants (Crematogaster ampla) in order to steal their food.[2]
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Discovery
Assistant professor of biology Scott Powell at George Washington University discovered them while studying turtle ants in Brazil.[3] Powell has said that the mirror turtle ant represents a glimpse of the early stages of social parasitism, before the parasite has "lost much of its free-living biology".[4]
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