Ectomomyrmex

Ectomomyrmex
Ectomomyrmex insulanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Alliance:	Ponera genus group
Genus:	Ectomomyrmex Mayr, 1867
Type species
Ectomomyrmex javanus [1] Mayr, 1867
Diversity [2]
27 species

Ectomomyrmex is a ponerine genus of ants found in Asia and Australia. Little is known about their biology, but they seem to be generalist predators of arthropod prey. ^[2]

Species

• Ectomomyrmex aciculatus (Emery, 1901)
• Ectomomyrmex acutus (Emery, 1900)
• Ectomomyrmex aequalis Mann, 1919
• Ectomomyrmex annamitus (André, 1892)
• Ectomomyrmex apicalis (Smith, 1857)
• Ectomomyrmex astutus (Smith, 1858)
• Ectomomyrmex claudatus Menozzi, 1926
• Ectomomyrmex exaratus (Emery, 1901)
• Ectomomyrmex insulanus (Mayr, 1876)
• Ectomomyrmex javanus Mayr, 1867
• Ectomomyrmex leeuwenhoeki (Forel, 1886)
• Ectomomyrmex lobocarenus (Xu, 1995)
• Ectomomyrmex melancholicus (Smith, 1865)
• Ectomomyrmex modiglianii Emery, 1900
• Ectomomyrmex obtusus (Emery, 1900)
• Ectomomyrmex overbecki Viehmeyer, 1916
• Ectomomyrmex pylixy Fisher, 2025
• Ectomomyrmex pylor Fisher, 2025
• Ectomomyrmex ruficornis Clark, 1934
• Ectomomyrmex scobinus Wilson, 1958
• Ectomomyrmex simillimus (Donisthorpe, 1949)
• Ectomomyrmex striatulus (Karavaiev, 1935)
• Ectomomyrmex striolatus (Donisthorpe, 1933)
• Ectomomyrmex sumatranus (Özdikmen, 2010)
• Ectomomyrmex tonkinus (Santschi, 1920)
• Ectomomyrmex vermiculatus (Emery, 1897)
• Ectomomyrmex zhengi Xu, 1995

References

1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Ectomomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
2. 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.