''Allomerus'' 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 small
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.
Its eight species are known from the forests of
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
, where they live in plant cavities and structures.
Species
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Allomerus brevipilosus''
Fernández, 2007
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Allomerus decemarticulatus''
Mayr, 1878
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Allomerus dentatus''
Fernández, 2007
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Allomerus maietae''
Fernández, 2007
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Allomerus octoarticulatus''
Mayr, 1878
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Allomerus septemarticulatus''
Mayr, 1878
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Allomerus undecemarticulatus''
Fernández, 2007
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Allomerus vogeli''
Kempf, 1975
Associated plants
Table of known ant–
host relations:
References
External links
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Myrmicinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of South America
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