- Oecophylla longinoda
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Oecophylla longinoda 
Oecophylla longinoda major workers constructing a nest, Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary, Cameroon Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Formicidae Genus: Oecophylla Species: O. longinoda Binomial name Oecophylla longinoda
Latreille, 1802[1]
Oecophylla range map. Oecophylla longinoda in blue, Oecophylla smaragdina in red.[1] Oecophylla longinoda (common name weaver ant) is a species of arboreal ant found in the forested regions of tropical Africa. They are one of only two extant species of the genus Oecophylla, the other being O. smaragdina. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae.
References
- ^ a b Dlussky, Gennady M.; Torsten Wappler and Sonja Wedmann (2008). "New middle Eocene formicid species from Germany and the evolution of weaver ants". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 615–626. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0406. http://gap.entclub.org/taxonomists/Dlussky/Oecophylla%20Dlussky08.pdf.
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