Nomamyrmex

Nomamyrmex
Nomamyrmex esenbeckii media worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Nomamyrmex Borgmeier, 1936
Type species
Eciton crassicornis
Diversity [1]
2 species

Nomamyrmex is a genus of army ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. ^[2] Its two species are distributed in the Neotropics: Nomamyrmex esenbeckii is known from southern United States to northern Argentina, and Nomamyrmex hartigii is known from Mexico to southern Brazil. ^[3] Nomamyrmex esenbeckii is the only known predator of mature colonies of Atta leaf-cutter ants. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Species

• Nomamyrmex esenbeckii (Westwood, 1842)
• Nomamyrmex hartigii (Westwood, 1842)

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Nomamyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. "Genus: Nomamyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. Watkins, J. F. (1977). "The species and subspecies of Nomamyrmex (Dorylinae: Formicidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 50 (2): 203–214.
4. Swartz, Monica B. (December 1998). "Predation on an Atta cephalotes Colony by an Army Ant, Nomamyrmex esenbeckii". Biotropica. 30 (4): 682–684. Bibcode:1998Biotr..30..682S. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00110.x. S2CID   84970670.
5. Powell, S.; Clark, E. (November 2004). "Combat between large derived societies: A subterranean army ant established as a predator of mature leaf-cutting ant colonies". Insectes Sociaux. 51 (4): 342–351. doi:10.1007/s00040-004-0752-2. S2CID   25945437.
6. Souza, Jorge L.P.; Moura, Carlos A. R. (2008). "Predation of Ants and Termites by Army Ants, Nomamyrmex esenbeckii (Formicidae, Ecitoninae) in the Brazilian Amazon" (PDF). Sociobiology. 52 (2): 399–402. S2CID   83382512. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 20 August 2019.

External links

• Media related to Nomamyrmex at Wikimedia Commons