''Lachnomyrmex'' is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
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
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 ...
s in the
subfamily Myrmicinae.
The genus consists of 16 species restricted to the Neotropics, known from southern
Mexico
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to northern
Argentina
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(and
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
just off the coast of
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
). They are most often found in the
leaf litter
Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground. This detritus or dead organic material and its constituent ...
of wet forests, with nests located on the ground. Workers forage alone, apparently without recruiting nestmates or using
pheromone
A pheromone () is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species. Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting like hormones outside the body of the secreting individual, to affect the behavio ...
s. Within the tribe
Stenammini, they seem to be most closely related to the genera ''
Lordomyrma
''Lordomyrma'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Distribution and habitat
The genus is known principally from Melanesia and Australia, with the one exception to this otherwise circumscribed distribution being the single species '' ...
'' of
Indo-Australia and ''
Cyphoidris'' of Africa.
Species
* ''
Lachnomyrmex amazonicus''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex fernandezi''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex grandis''
Fernández & Baena, 1997
* ''
Lachnomyrmex haskinsi''
Smith, 1944
* ''
Lachnomyrmex laticeps''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex lattkei''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex longinodus''
Fernández & Baena, 1997
* ''
Lachnomyrmex longinoi''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex mackayi''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex nordestinus''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex pilosus''
Weber, 1950
* ''
Lachnomyrmex platynodus''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex plaumanni''
Borgmeier, 1957
* ''
Lachnomyrmex regularis''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
* ''
Lachnomyrmex scrobiculatus''
Wheeler, 1910
* ''
Lachnomyrmex victori''
Feitosa & Brandão, 2008
References
External links
*
Myrmicinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of North America
Hymenoptera of South America
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