Allomerus | |
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A. decemarticulatus worker | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: |
Allomerus Mayr, 1878 |
Type species | |
Allomerus decemarticulatus Mayr, 1878
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Diversity [1] | |
8 species |
Allomerus is a Neotropical genus of small ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. [2] Its eight species are known from the forests of South America, where they live in plant cavities and structures. [3]
Table of known ant– host relations: [3]
Ant | Plant |
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A. brevipilosus | Gleasonia nauensis |
A. decemarticulatus |
Duroia sp. (probably), Gleasonia nauensis, Hirtella sp., Hirtella physophora, Tococa sp. (probably) |
A. dentatus | Tococa hirta |
A. maietae | Maieta neblinensis |
A. octoarticulatus |
Remijia physophora, Tococa sp. |
A. septemarticulatus | Duroia saccifera |
A. vogeli | Myrmidone macrosperma |
A. undecemarticulatus | Tococa pachystachya |
Allomerus | |
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A. decemarticulatus worker | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: |
Allomerus Mayr, 1878 |
Type species | |
Allomerus decemarticulatus Mayr, 1878
| |
Diversity [1] | |
8 species |
Allomerus is a Neotropical genus of small ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. [2] Its eight species are known from the forests of South America, where they live in plant cavities and structures. [3]
Table of known ant– host relations: [3]
Ant | Plant |
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A. brevipilosus | Gleasonia nauensis |
A. decemarticulatus |
Duroia sp. (probably), Gleasonia nauensis, Hirtella sp., Hirtella physophora, Tococa sp. (probably) |
A. dentatus | Tococa hirta |
A. maietae | Maieta neblinensis |
A. octoarticulatus |
Remijia physophora, Tococa sp. |
A. septemarticulatus | Duroia saccifera |
A. vogeli | Myrmidone macrosperma |
A. undecemarticulatus | Tococa pachystachya |