''Dolichoderus rufescens'' is a species 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 22,0 ...

in the genus ''

Dolichoderus ''Dolichoderus'' is a genus of ants found worldwide. Taxonomy The ants of the Neotropical genus ''Monacis'' were revised in 1959 by Kempf. However, Brown in 1973 and G. C. Wheeler and J. Wheeler in 1973 and 1976 considered both ''Monacis'' and ' ...

''. Described by

William M. Mann William Montana Mann (1886–1960) was an American entomologist and the fifth director of the National Zoological Park (United States), National Zoo in Washington, D.C. from 1925 until 1956. In 1921, he traveled on the Mulford Expedition to the ...

in 1912, the species is endemic to

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 ...

.MacKay, W. P. (1993). "A review of the New World ants of the genus ''Dolichoderus'' (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". ''Sociobiology''. 22: 90.

References

rufescens Hymenoptera of South America Insects described in 1912 {{Dolichoderus-stub