Myrmicaria

Myrmicaria
Myrmicaria
M. brunnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Myrmicarinii
Genus: Myrmicaria
Saunders, 1842
Species

M. anomala
M. brunnea
M. carinata
M. exigua
 many others, see text.
Diversity
c. 30 species

Myrmicaria is an ant genus within the subfamily Myrmicinae.

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Description

Myrmicaria can be discerned from related ant genera by a postpetiole with a complete tergosternal fusion, a postpetiole-gaster articulation shifted ventrally on the gaster, and an antenna with seven segments.[1]

Biochemistry

Myrmicarin 430A, a heptacyclic alkaloid, was isolated from the poison glands of African Myrmicaria. The structure of its carbon skeleton was previously unknown.[2]

Species

  • Myrmicaria anomala Arnold, 1960
  • Myrmicaria arachnoides (Smith, 1857)
  • Myrmicaria arnoldi Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria basutorum Arnold, 1960
  • Myrmicaria baumi Forel, 1901
  • Myrmicaria birmana Forel, 1902
  • Myrmicaria brunnea Saunders, 1842
  • Myrmicaria carinata (Smith, 1857)
  • Myrmicaria castanea Crawley, 1924
  • Myrmicaria distincta Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria exigua Andre, 1890
  • Myrmicaria faurei Arnold, 1947
  • Myrmicaria fodica (Jerdon, 1851)
  • Myrmicaria foreli Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria fumata Santschi, 1916
  • Myrmicaria fusca Stitz, 1911
  • Myrmicaria irregularis Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria laevior Forel, 1910
  • Myrmicaria melanogaster Emery, 1900
  • Myrmicaria natalensis (Smith, 1858)
  • Myrmicaria nigra (Mayr, 1862)
  • Myrmicaria opaciventris Emery, 1893
  • Myrmicaria reichenspergeri Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria rhodesiae Arnold, 1958
  • Myrmicaria rugosa (Smith, 1860)
  • Myrmicaria rustica Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria salambo Wheeler, 1922
  • Myrmicaria striata Stitz, 1911
  • Myrmicaria striatula Santschi, 1925
  • Myrmicaria tigreensis (Guerin-Meneville, 1849)
  • Myrmicaria vidua Smith, 1858

Footnotes

  1. ^ Tree of Life
  2. ^ Schröder et al. 1996

References


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