Table 1.

Summary of the life history and ecology of the study species. (DD, data deficient.)

trait	Diacamma rugosum	Camponotus fellah	Rhytidoponera metallica	Pogonomyrmex rugosus	Iridomyrmex purpureus
reproductives	1 gamergate [42,43]	1 queen [37]	0—many queens + gamergates [44,45]	1 queen [37,46]	1—many queens [47,48]
matings	1 [42,43]	139	1—few [44]	3–1240	1—few [48,49]
workers	100 [50]	10 K [37]	30–1 K [51]	600–15 K [52,53]	11–300 K
colony structure	monodomous [43]	DD	DD	monodomous [37]	polydomous [40,41]
founding	probably budding [43]	independent [54]	independent + budding [44]	independent [37,55]	independent [48]
foraging	solitary [50]	DD	solitary	solitary + group [56]	DD