Talk:Apocrita

File:Plectroctena sp ants.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Plectroctena sp ants.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on October 18, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-10-18. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 16:18, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day

One Plectroctena sp. ant attacks another of its kind to protect its territory. Plectroctena ants belong to the Apocrita suborder, which also includes wasps and bees. Members of Apocrita are characterized by the narrow "waist" (petiole, seen here directly behind the rear leg on the right ant) formed between the first two segments of the actual abdomen; the first abdominal segment is fused to the thorax, and is called the propodeum.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Uncited changes to taxonomy

An editor has been making multiple changes to the taxonomy in this and related articles without providing any sources. I've reverted these for now; obviously we'd like to have an up-to-date taxonomy and phylogeny, but since uncited changes cannot be verified (WP:V) this is not an acceptable approach. It will be fine to have the changes reinstated supported by suitable reliable sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:54, 28 July 2018 (UTC)