Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Mycetomoellerius

Representative Images

Largish ant - Mycetomoellerius turrifex small primitive looking ant - Mycetomoellerius turrifex small primitive looking ant - Mycetomoellerius turrifex Trachymyrmex turrifex 3 image stack - Mycetomoellerius turrifex - female Attini - Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis - female Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis - female Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis - female Mycetomoellerius turrifex  - Mycetomoellerius turrifex - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Myrmicinae
Tribe Attini
Subtribe Attina (Fungus Growing Ants)
Genus Mycetomoellerius

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mycetomoellerius Solomon, Rabeling, Sosa-Calvo & Schultz, 2019
split from Trachymyrmex in 2019

Numbers

2 species in the US, 30 total.

Range

In the US, M. turrifex in the south-central states, and M. jamaicensis in southernmost Florida.

Internet References