Myrmicaria | |
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M. brunnea | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
Genus: | Myrmicaria Saunders, 1842 |
Type species | |
Myrmicaria brunnea Saunders, 1842
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Diversity[1] | |
32 species | |
Synonyms | |
Heptacondylus Smith, 1857 |
Myrmicaria is an ant genus within the subfamily Myrmicinae.
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.[2]
Myrmicarin 430A, a heptacyclic alkaloid, was isolated from the poison glands of African Myrmicaria. The structure of its carbon skeleton was previously unknown.[3]