Atopomyrmex | |
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Atopomyrmex mocquerysi worker from the Central African Republic | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Atopomyrmex André, 1889 |
Type species | |
Atopomyrmex mocquerysi André, 1889
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Diversity[1] | |
3 species |
Atopomyrmex is a small genus of arboreal ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is known from the Afrotropics, where they nest in living wood and forage in the vegetation or on the ground.[3]