Myrmisaraka | |
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Myrmisaraka producta worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Myrmisaraka Bolton & Fisher, 2014 |
Type species | |
Myrmisaraka producta Bolton & Fisher, 2014 | |
Diversity [1] | |
2 species |
Myrmisaraka is a Malagasy genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Described in 2014, the genus contains two species. [2]
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