''Hylomyrma balzani'' is an

ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of ...

of the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

'' Hylomyrma'' native to

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

. It was described by Emery in 1894, where the first specimen of a worker was described.Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. ''Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital.'' 26: 137-241 (page 165, worker described)

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* Myrmicinae Hymenoptera of South America Invertebrates of Paraguay Hymenoptera of Brazil Invertebrates of Argentina Insects described in 1894 {{myrmicinae-stub