| Myrmecocystus mendax | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Lasiini |
| Genus: | Myrmecocystus |
| Species: | M. mendax |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrmecocystus mendax Wheeler, 1908 | |
Myrmecocystus mendax is a species of ant in the family Formicidae. [1] [2] [3] [4] It occurs in Mexico and Southwestern United States. [2]
Honey ants, also called honeypot ants, are ants which have specialized workers that are gorged with food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously. Other ants then extract nourishment from them, through the process of trophallaxis. They function as living larders. Honeypot ants belong to any of several genera, including Myrmecocystus and Camponotus. They were first documented in 1881 by Henry C. McCook, and described further in 1908 by William Morton Wheeler.
Myrmecocystus is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It is one of five genera that includes honeypot ants. Worker ants keep and tend plerergates, which are other ants that store large quantities of nutritious fluid in their abdomens to feed the colony during famine times.. Some species engage in highly territorial tournaments, which can result in intraspecific slavery. During the raids, they carry off larvae, workers, and plerergates.
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Myrmecocystus wheeleri is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
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Myrmecocystus placodops is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Myrmecocystus kennedyi is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
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Actenodes mendax is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.
Solenopsis carolinensis, the thief ant, is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Formica integroides is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Camponotus discolor is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Myrmecocystus semirufus is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Myrmica incompleta is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Camponotus novaeboracensis, the new York carpenter ant, is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Pogonomyrmex desertorum, the large seed harvesting ant, is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
Myrmecina americana is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.
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