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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Attini » Fungus Growing Ants (Attina) » Trachymyrmex

Genus Trachymyrmex

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Ants - Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Small, Spiny Brown Ants - Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Trachymyrmex male? - Trachymyrmex Worker, Trachymyrmex nogalensis? - Trachymyrmex nogalensis Worker, Trachymyrmex nogalensis? - Trachymyrmex nogalensis Trachymyrmex septentrionalis - female Trachymyrmex septentrionalis - 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 Trachymyrmex
Explanation of Names
Trachymyrmex Forel 1893
Numbers
As of 2019, 7 spp. in our area, 9 spp. total.
Originally 9 spp. in our area(1), 47 total(2)
Range
North and Central America, none in South America. In our area, large areas of the southern states, reaching as far north as southern Illinois and the pine barrens of New Jersey.
Internet References
Key to Trachymyrmex species of USA - Joe MacGown, 2022
Works Cited
1.A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Rabeling et al. 2007. Zootaxa 1644: 1-53.
2.Ward P.S. (2002-) AntWeb
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 16 May, 2006 - 7:35pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, James C. Trager, v belov, Steven Wang
Last updated 11 January, 2023 - 9:27am

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