The behaviour of social insects such as bees and ants has influenced the development of
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …

Task partitioning is the name given to the phenomenon in which a piece of work is divided
among two or more workers, such as the partitioning of the collection of a load of forage …

The collection and handling of colony resources such as food, water, and nest construction
material is often divided into subtasks in which the material is passed from one worker to …

According to the weight and size of their prey, Ectatomma ruidum workers can employ
different recruitment systems (solitary hunting, cooperative hunting and group hunting with …

We propose an approach for autonomous task partitioning in swarms of foraging robots.
Task partitioning is the process of decomposing tasks into sub-tasks. Task partitioning …

Morphological insect-insect mimicry is known from few Cretaceous cockroaches and a
beetle. Formicamendax vrsanskyi gen. et sp. n.(Blattaria, Alienopteridae) shows …

We study task partitioning in the context of swarm robotics. Task partitioning is the
decomposition of a task into subtasks that can be tackled by different workers. We focus on …

We tested, under field and laboratory conditions, whether the neotropical ant Ectatomma
ruidum Roger can learn several associations between temporal and spatial changes in the …

We report here the first case of queen dimorphism in a ponerine ant species. A total of 550
colonies of the Neotropical ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum, from two natural populations in …

Nuclear mitochondrial (mt) paralogues (numts) are non-functional fragments of mtDNA
integrated into the nuclear genome that can overestimate the number of species in analyses …