Echinopla | |
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Echinopla melanarctos worker from Indonesia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Echinopla Smith, 1857 |
Type species | |
Echinopla melanarctos Smith, 1857 | |
Diversity [1] | |
24 species | |
Synonyms | |
MesoxenaSmith, 1860 |
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