''Labidus'' is a
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 ...
of
New World
The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. ...
army ant
The name army ant (or legionary ant or ''marabunta'') is applied to over 200 ant species in different lineages. Because of their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids", a huge number of ants forage simultaneously over a limi ...
s in the
subfamily Dorylinae
Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Brady ''et al.'' (2014) synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and Leptanilloidinae) unde ...
.
The genus is known from the United States 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 ...
.
Species
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Labidus auropubens''
(Santschi, 1920)
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Labidus coecus''
(Latreille, 1802)
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Labidus curvipes''
(Emery, 1900)
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Labidus mars''
(Forel, 1912)
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Labidus praedator''
(Smith, 1858)
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Labidus spininodis''
(Emery, 1890)
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Labidus truncatidens''
(Santschi, 1920)
References
External links
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Dorylinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of North America
Hymenoptera of South America
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