On the Polymorphism in a Polydomous Red Wood Ants, Formica rufa truncicola var. yessoensis Forel in Korea

한국산 불개미의 다형현상에 관하여

In this paper have been examained the relation of tssk performance to body size. the variation of venation of males, sex ratio, breeding by forms of worker's pupae and structure by forms of workers's colony to nest size in polymorphism of polydomous red wood ant, Formica rufa truncicola var. yessoensis Forel in Korea. 1. The workers are classified into three forms, in which small form mainly performs itself the task of nursing in the nest and the visit to aphid from the outside of the nest, medium and large form mainly do not only the stinct of prey carrying from the outside of the nest and nest structure, but the task of protecting colony of outside. But the small forms visiting to aphid is not always fixed but seems to be changed with season. 2. The variation forms of venation of males are fourteen, generally, they have various variations of the discoidal. 3. Generally, sex ratio of Formica rufa truncicola var. yessoensis Forel is the same proportion, but it seems that there are some difference according to its characteristic of colony in each nest and polydomous colony structure in its habitat. 4. In summer season the medium form makes a colony in high proportion without any relations with the size of nest but. during hibernation, small form coasists in small nest, medium in medium nest and large in large nest. And so the structure of worker's colony by forms according to their nest size seems to be changed with season.

한국산 불개미의 다형현상에 있어서 일개미의 몸의 크기와 임무수행과의 관계, 유시웅의의 시맥상의 변이, 성비 및 소의 크기에 따르는 일개미번데기의 형별발생과 일개미집단의 형별구성등에 관하여 조사한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 일개미는 3형으로 분화되어 있으며, 소형은 주로 소의 내부에 동료집단의 보호와 외부에서 진딧물에 방문하는 임무를, 그리고 대형과 중간형은 주로 외부에서 식이운반, 조소 및 동료집단의 보호임무를 수행한다. 그러나 소형이 진딧물에 방문하는 임무는 반드시 고정되어 있는 것이 아니고 계절에 따라 다소 변동이 있는 것 같다.