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n. [Gr. deinos, terrible; phthisis, decline; ergates, worker](ARTHROPODA: Insecta)In ants, a soldierworker pupal mosaic that fails to progress to the adult stage due to parasitism or other interference.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.