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ergate ‎(plural ergates)

(entomology) A worker ant.
- 1910, William Morton Wheeler, Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior, Columbia University Press, page 97:
  The worker (ergates) is characterized by the complete absence of wings and a very small (stenonotal) thorax, much simplified in the structure of its sclerites.