Anochetus

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Anochetus
Temporal range: Burdigalian - Recent
Anochetus faurei sam-hym-c005349a dorsal 1.jpg
Anochetus faurei worker
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Clade: Poneria
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Anochetus
Mayr, 1861
Type species
Odontomachus ghilianii [1]
Diversity [2]
122 species
Synonyms

Myrmapatetes Wheeler, 1929
StenomyrmexMayr, 1862

Anochetus is a genus of small, carnivorous ants found in the tropics and subtropics throughout the world. [3]

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This genus is present in both the Old and New World and is certainly native to all continents except Antarctica and Europe. In Europe only a single species, Anochetus ghilianii, has been found, and it is not certain it is native to its European range (Province of Cadiz and Gibraltar). [4] However A. ghilianii is native to Morocco.

Anochetus is of some note due to it being one of the relatively few genera that possess trap-jaws, or specialized long mandibles that have a rapid closing mechanism. However, it is the only other genus, other than Odontomachus that uses the mandibles for predator evasion as well as prey capture.[ citation needed ]

Species

References

  1. ↑ "Genus: Anochetus". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Anochetus". AntCat. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Schmidt, C. A; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa . 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID   24943802.
  4. ↑ "Anochetus ghilianii Antmaps status". Antmaps.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 De Andrade, M. L. (1994). "Fossil Odontomachiti Ants from the Dominican Republic (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VII: Odontomachiti)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 199: 1–28.
  6. ↑ MacKay, W. P. (1991). "Anochetus brevidentatus, new species, a second fossil Odontomachiti ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 99: 138–140.
  7. ↑ Baroni Urbani, C. (1980). "Anochetus corayi n. sp., the first fossil Odontomachiti ant. (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. II: Odontomachiti)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 55: 1–6.
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