Movie 1.

Rubbing behaviour of a newly mated P. lamellidens queen towards a glass bead coated with chitin and host CCs. A newly mated P. lamellidens queen and a glass bead coated with chitin and host CCs were placed into a plaster-spread plastic arena. After 1 minute, the movie was taken.

Initial parasitic behaviour of the temporary social parasitic ant Polyrhachis lamellidens can be induced by host-like cuticles in laboratory environment

Yu Kurihara, Hironori Iwai, Nobuaki Kono, Masaru Tomita, and Kazuharu Arakawa

Biology Open 2022. 11:None-None; doi: 10.1242/bio.058956