Trachymyrmex

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Trachymyrmex
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis casent0003337 profile 1.jpg
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Myrmicinae
Tribe:
Attini
Genus:
Trachymyrmex

Forel, 1893
Type species
Atta septentrionalis[1]
McCook, 1881
Diversity[2]
48 species

Trachymyrmex is a genus of fungus-growing ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is mainly tropical in distribution, with most species being found in Central and South America.[3]

The queens of the species appear to mate with only one male on their nuptial flight.[4]

Species[]

  • Kempf, 1967
  • (Wheeler, 1907)
  • (Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2007)
  • (Forel, 1912)
  • Weber, 1945
  • Mackay & MacKay, 1997
  • Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2005
  • Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002
  • (Forel, 1912)
  • (Wheeler, 1911)
  • Kempf, 1967
  • Mann, 1916
  • Weber, 1938
  • (Emery, 1894)
  • (Santschi, 1916)
  • (Forel, 1914)
  • Weber, 1937
  • (Wheeler & Mann, 1914)
  • Wheeler, 1925
  • (Emery, 1888)
  • (Forel, 1909)
  • (Forel, 1912)
  • Santschi, 1931
  • Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2007
  • (André, 1893)
  • Fowler, 1982
  • Weber, 1938
  • Weber, 1938
  • Trachymyrmex nogalensis Byars, 1951
  • (Forel, 1908)
  • (Mann, 1922)
  • Sánchez-Peña, Chacón-Cardosa, Canales-Del Castillo & Reséndez-Pérez, 2018
  • Santschi, 1922
  • Wheeler, 1925
  • Rabeling, Cover, Johnson & Mueller, 2007
  • † Baroni Urbani, 1980
  • (Emery, 1906)
  • Borgmeier, 1934
  • Weber, 1937
  • (Forel, 1885)
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (McCook, 1881)
  • Buren, 1944
  • (Emery, 1896)
  • (Forel, 1914)
  • Trachymyrmex turrifex (Wheeler, 1903)
  • (Forel, 1893)
  • Borgmeier, 1948
  • (Weber, 1937)
  • Weber, 1940

References[]

  1. ^ "Genus: Trachymyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Trachymyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  3. ^ Rabeling, Christian; Cover, Stefan P; Johnson, Robert A; Mueller, Ulrich G (2007). "A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Zootaxa. 1664: 1–53.
  4. ^ Murakami, T.; Higashi, Seigo; Windsor, Donald (2000-09-01). "Mating frequency, colony size, polyethism and sex ratio in fungus-growing ants (Attini)". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 48 (4): 276–284. doi:10.1007/s002650000243. ISSN 1432-0762. S2CID 11870497.

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