Ectomomyrmex is a ponerine genus of ants found in Asia and Australia. Little is known about their biology, but they seem to be generalist predators of arthropod prey.[2]
| Ectomomyrmex | |
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| Ectomomyrmex insulanus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Ectomomyrmex Mayr, 1867 |
| Type species | |
| Ectomomyrmex javanus[1] Mayr, 1867
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| Diversity[2] | |
| 27 species | |
Species
edit- Ectomomyrmex aciculatus (Emery, 1901)
- Ectomomyrmex acutus (Emery, 1900)
- Ectomomyrmex aequalis Mann, 1919
- Ectomomyrmex annamitus (André, 1892)
- Ectomomyrmex apicalis (Smith, 1857)
- Ectomomyrmex astutus (Smith, 1858)
- Ectomomyrmex claudatus Menozzi, 1926
- Ectomomyrmex exaratus (Emery, 1901)
- Ectomomyrmex insulanus (Mayr, 1876)
- Ectomomyrmex javanus Mayr, 1867
- Ectomomyrmex leeuwenhoeki (Forel, 1886)
- Ectomomyrmex lobocarenus (Xu, 1995)
- Ectomomyrmex melancholicus (Smith, 1865)
- Ectomomyrmex modiglianii Emery, 1900
- Ectomomyrmex obtusus (Emery, 1900)
- Ectomomyrmex overbecki Viehmeyer, 1916
- Ectomomyrmex punctatus (Karavaiev, 1935)
- Ectomomyrmex ruficornis Clark, 1934
- Ectomomyrmex sauteri (Forel, 1912)
- Ectomomyrmex scobinus Wilson, 1958
- Ectomomyrmex simillimus (Donisthorpe, 1949)
- Ectomomyrmex striatulus (Karavaiev, 1935)
- Ectomomyrmex striolatus (Donisthorpe, 1933)
- Ectomomyrmex sumatranus (Özdikmen, 2010)
- Ectomomyrmex tonkinus (Santschi, 1920)
- Ectomomyrmex vermiculatus (Emery, 1897)
- Ectomomyrmex zhengi Xu, 1995
References
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Ectomomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ a b Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa. 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.
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