Insect cognition Insect cognition Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal behavior. Researchers have examined insect cognition in bees, fruit flies, and wasps. Research questions consist of experiments aimed to evaluate insects abilities with perception, attention, memory (wasp multiple nest), spatial cognition, tools use, problem solving, and concepts. Unlike in animal behavior the concept of group cognition plays a big part in insect studies. It is hypothesized some insect classes like ant and bees think with a group cognitive to function within their
Jack jumper ant in his "Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum part VI", under the binomial name "Myrmecia pilosula" from specimens he collected in Hobart in Tasmania. There, Smith described the specimens of a worker, queen and male. The type specimen is located in the British Museum in London. In 1922, American entomologist William Morton Wheeler established the subgenus "Halmamyrmecia" characterised by its jumping behaviour, of which the jack jumper ant was designated as the type species. However, John Clark later synonymised "Halmamyrmecia" under the subgenus "Promyrmecia" in 1927 and placed the ant in the subgenus in 1943.