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A group of scientists from the University of Mainz and the
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz, headed by Susanne Foitzik and
Bernhard Seifert, recently described a new slave-making ant species from the
eastern USA. They baptized the new ant Temnothorax pilagens – from pilere
(Latin): to pluck, plunder or pillage. The paper was published in the open
access journal ZooKeys.