Insect empire

The insect empire is a nation of the median race of intelligent formicidae that live on the other continent. 
They are great mounds that fight and kill each other for dominance over the lands. 
Ruled by Gynes, fertile broodmothers.
Employ ant mimics to spy on one another.
Zombism in giant insects
Gaster gun, Crematogaster: abdominal mounted weapons of the Formica
Many different species with different cultures, methods of communication, arts, architecture, weapons and tactics.
== Cultures ==
Fungi farming
Waste treatment
Honeydew
Architectures:
Mounds
Lodges (Logs)
Rises 
== Tribes ==
=== Mound ants ===
Like other field ants, the mound ants build large mounds usually 5 square kilometers in surface. The ants kill vegetation within a 20 to 50 kilometer radius of their mounds. The ants inject formic acid into surrounding plants, killing shrubs and trees (save for those for their honeydew farms). Mound ant's appearance serves as their colors, with red-orange heads and thorax, the gaster is black-brown. The mounds are complex. Several different mounds are often interconnected. The mound serves as a solar incubator for the eggs and larvae. Unlike most other ants, Allegheny mound ants have multiple queens. Maturation from egg to adult takes 2.5–3 months. They hunt a wide assortment of grassland animals that live around their mounds as a protein source and collect aphid honeydew as a source of sugars.
The ants are very aggressive and will bite if a mound is disturbed. They are not overly expansionist, only building new mounds where they can connect to previously established mounds. 
Mound ant territory is marked with lesions in the form of a deep constriction on the main stem of species of trees, done by the jaws of their scouts. The mounds vary in size with age, many reaching 2.5 km in height and 5 km in diameter. No live trees or shrubs of any height occur in close proximity to the mounds, this is thought to be to allow better visibility to the mound ants. Some small groves may be spared in order to farm aphids. 
The Grasslands around mound ant mounds are called Alleghany grasslands.
Mound ant hunting parties are opportunistic, hunting any animal they come across, from deers to elephants to predator species of wolves and cougars, any who die will be taken back to be eaten at the mound. They mark their hunting trails with pheromones. 
=== Leafcutter ants ===
Leafcutter ants are a species of leaf-chewing ants. Leafcutter ants can carry twenty times their body weight and cut and process fresh vegetation (leaves, flowers, and grasses) to serve as the nutrition for their fungal cultures.
There are two families of leafcutters, the Atta and Acrom. Both vie for control over the fungi trade and forests that produce the leaves for their cultures.
Acrom and Atta ants have much in common culturally and where the split came in between them is unknown; however, the two can be identified by their external differences. Atta ants are relatively large, rusty red or brown in colour, have three pairs of spines and a smooth exoskeleton on the upper surface of the thorax, while Acrom ants have four pairs and a rough exoskeleton. The exoskeleton itself is covered in a thin layer of mineral coating, composed of rhombohedral crystals that are generated by the ants, making their exoskeleton stronger than most Formica.
In a few years, the central mound of their underground nests can grow to more than 150 square kilometers across, with smaller radiating mounds extending out to a radius of 80 km and containing eight million individuals.
=== Dulosis ants ===
Slave makers, 
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