- Mycetophylax
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Mycetophylax Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Formicidae Subfamily: Formicinae Tribe: Attini Genus: Mycetophylax Species see text
Mycetophylax is a genus of fungus-growing ants. The genus is characterized exclusively for the New World and is only found on coastal sandy beaches and shallow waters of Brazil.[1]
Systematics
- Mycetophylax bruchi (Santschi, 1916)
- Mycetophylax conformis (Mayr, 1884)
- Mycetophylax cristulatus (Santschi, 1922)
- Mycetophylax emeryi (Forel, 1907)
- Mycetophylax glaber Weber, 1948
- Mycetophylax simplex (Emery, 1888)
Footnotes
- ^ D. C. Cardoso, M. P. Cristiano and M. G. Tavares. 2011. Methodological remarks on rearing basal Attini ants in the laboratory for biological and evolutionary studies: overview of the genus Mycetophylax. // Insectes Sociaux. Volume 58, Number 3, 427—430, DOI: 10.1007/s00040-011-0160-3 (English) References
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