Tsuji, K.; Furukawa, T.; Kinomura, K.; Takamine, H.; Yamauchi, K. 1991. "The caste system of the dolichoderine ant Technomyrmex albipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): morphological description of queens, workers and reproductively active intercastes." Insectes Soc. 38: 413-422.
Abstract: T. albipes has winged males & queens & ergatoid males & queens; these mate in all possible combinations. Up to half of the adult population in each colony is inseminated ergatoid females.
Keywords: Technomyrmex albipes; Asia; Japan; Okinawa; scientific; biology; oviposition; caste; polygyny; mating; flights; colony budding; parthenogenesis; thelytoky; ovary; ovarioles; ergatoid queen; ergatoid male; reproductive intercaste; supplementary reproductive; morphology;