Myrmecocystus

Myrmecocystus
Myrmecocystus
Myrmecocystus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Myrmecocystus
Wesmael, 1838
Species

6 recognized species, see article.

Myrmecocystus is a North American genus of ants. It is one of five genera that includes honeypot ants.[1] 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. There

Species include:[2]

  • Myrmecocystus depilis
  • Myrmecocystus flaviceps
  • Myrmecocystus mendax
  • Myrmecocystus mexicanus
  • Myrmecocystus mimicus
  • Myrmecocystus navajo

References

  1. ^ Morgan, R. Biology, husbandry and display of the diurnal honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
  2. ^ Myrmecocystus honeypot ants

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