phthisergate

phthisergate
n. [Gr. phthisis, decline; ergates, worker]
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Formicidae, an emaciated pharate adult worker due to parasitic feeding in the larval, prepupal or pharate adult stage by the larval ant chalcid wasp of the family Eucharitidae; an infra-ergatoid form.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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