gynaecotelic type
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gynaecotelic type also ergatotelic type: (Arthropoda: Insecta) One of the two groups of social insects in which the queen manifests the prototype female, with all the primary instincts, including those of the worker caste until after the colony is established when she then becomes an egg-laying machine.
