Acanthomyrmex

Acanthomyrmex
Acanthomyrmex concavus worker
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Acanthomyrmex Emery, 1893
Type species
Acanthomyrmex luciolae Emery, 1893

Acanthomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. ^[1] The genus is known from South East Asia. Its species are dimorphic, with major workers in some genera having heads twice the length (and ten times the volume) than that of the minor workers. They live in small colonies and are rarely collected in the field. ^[2] There are 17 species of Acanthomyrmex. ^[3]

List of species

Scientific name [3]	Authority	Major worker picture	Minor worker picture
Acanthomyrmex basispinosus	Moffett, 1986
Acanthomyrmex careoscrobis	Moffett, 1986
Acanthomyrmex concavus	Moffett, 1986
Acanthomyrmex crassispinus	Wheeler, W.M., 1930
Acanthomyrmex dusun	Wheeler, W.M., 1919
Acanthomyrmex ferox	Emery, 1893
Acanthomyrmex foveolatus	Moffett, 1986
Acanthomyrmex glabfemoralis	Zhou & Zheng, 1997
Acanthomyrmex humilis	Eguchi, Bui & Yamane, 2008
Acanthomyrmex laevis	Moffett, 1986
Acanthomyrmex luciolae	Emery, 1893
Acanthomyrmex mindanao	Moffett, 1986
Acanthomyrmex minus	Terayama, Ito & Gobin, 1998
Acanthomyrmex notabilis	Smith, F., 1860
Acanthomyrmex padanensis	Terayama, Ito & Gobin, 1998
Acanthomyrmex sulawesiensis	Terayama, Ito & Gobin, 1998
Acanthomyrmex thailandensis	Terayama, 1995

References

1. "Genus: Acanthomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 23 September 2013.
2. Moffett, M. W. (1986). "Revision of the myrmicine genus Acanthomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 151: 55–89.
3. Bolton, B. (2014). "Acanthomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

External links

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