Lachnomyrmex laticeps

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Lachnomyrmex laticeps
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Lachnomyrmex
Species:
L. laticeps
Binomial name
Lachnomyrmex laticeps
Feitosa, R. M. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2008

Lachnomyrmex laticeps is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. [1]

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References

  1. Feitosa, R. M. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2008, A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical myrmicine ant genus Lachnomyrmex Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa (1890), pp. 1–49: 19–21