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Genus Myrmecocystus - Honeypot Ants

Red-headed ants - Myrmecocystus - female Red-headed desert ants - Myrmecocystus Myrmecocystus semirufus Myrmecocystus? - Myrmecocystus Formicidae - Myrmecocystus Camponotus? - Myrmecocystus - female Ants - Myrmecocystus Myrmecocystus - Myrmecocystus
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 Formicinae
Tribe Lasiini
Genus Myrmecocystus (Honeypot Ants)
Range
arid regions of w. NA(1)
Habitat
soil-nesting ants of arid regions(1)
Remarks
Some members of each colony become living storage containers and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers deep underground, their abdomens greatly swollen with food(1)
Internet References
Key to species - http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Key_to_Myrmecocystus_species
Works Cited
1.Wild A. (-2014) Myrmecos
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 13 July, 2006 - 8:29am
Additional contributions by James C. Trager, v belov
Last updated 27 August, 2016 - 11:28am

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