Dracula ant is a 4-star species card from the Information Age. Dracula ants have the fastest-moving animal body part ever recorded: their snapping jaws.
Bonus by grade
| Grade | Copies needed | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | +4% critical hit chance |
| Uncommon | 2 | +7.2% critical hit chance |
| Rare | 5 | +12% critical hit chance |
| Epic | 10 | +18% critical hit chance |
| Legendary | 20 | +28% critical hit chance |
Duplicates raise the grade: Uncommon at 2, Rare at 5, Epic at 10, Legendary at 20.
Codex
- Common: Mystrium camillae lives in South-east Asia and Australia.
- Uncommon: Its jaws snap at up to about 90 metres per second.
- Rare: The snap works like clicking your fingers: jaws press together, then slip past each other.
- Epic: The name comes from adults drinking their larvae's blood (haemolymph) without killing them.
- Legendary: They hunt centipedes and other prey underground.
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Field guide
| Size | Workers about 3.3–4.5 mm; queens about 7 mm |
| Colony | A few hundred workers (reported by ant keepers) |
| Queens | In larger colonies, queens feed only on their own larvae's blood |
| Nest | Under stones and rotting wood, usually in forest |
| Diet | Mostly centipedes caught underground; adults also sip larval blood |
| Defence | Snaps its jaws at high speed to strike or escape; no sting reported |
| Active | Forages underground |
| Lifespan | Not well known |
| Where it lives | Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China and Vietnam |
Did you know?
- Workers are dull brown or brick red and often carry soil, so their nests are hard to spot.
- Its jaws are built to store energy and release it all at once, like a spring.
- Scientists still debate whether several look-alike species are hiding under the name camillae.
Sources: antwiki.org, taxonomyaustralia.org.au, antantics.wales, antstore.net, en.wikipedia.org
Codex sets
- Modern ants: Bulldog ant, Amazon ant, Turtle ant, Saharan silver ant, Dracula ant, Red wood ant, Marauder ant, American honeypot ant, Matabele ant, Asian needle ant, Red honey ant, Giant forest ant, Clonal raider ant
Queen affinity
- Black garden ant: ×1 chance
- Meat ant: ×0.5 chance
- Bull ant: ×0.5 chance