Allomerus decemarticulatus is a species of ant that is notable for its tripartite symbiosis with its host plant and a fungus, which it uses to ambush much larger prey such as locusts. Subfamilies Formicomorph subfamilies Aneuretinae Dolichoderinae Formicinae - e. ... Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their magnificent sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home. ... Divisions Microsporidia Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Fungi (singular: fungus) are a major group of living things, originally considered plants but now treated as the separate kingdom Fungi. ... For other meanings of the word Locust, see Locust (disambiguation). ...

Writing in Nature, entomologist Alain Dejean and coworkers describe how A. decemarticulatus takes hair from its host (the Amazonian ant plant) and binds it together with a purpose-grown fungal mycelium (a complex of sooty mould species). They do this in order to make a galleried platform for trapping larger insects. The ants do this in order to supplement their intake of fixed nitrogen. Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, first published on November 4, 1869. ... Hair is the filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis found in mammals. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... General Name, Symbol, Number Nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15 (VA), 2 , p Density 1. ...

The ants immobilized their prey by hiding in holes in the platform, with their mandibles open, waiting for an insect to land. To trap the insect, the ants grasped any free appendage (legs, antennae, or wings) and moved in and out of the holes, thereby stretching the insect.