| Nomamyrmex | |
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| Nomamyrmex esenbeckii media worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Nomamyrmex Borgmeier, 1936 |
| Type species | |
| Eciton crassicornis | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
Nomamyrmex is a genus of army ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. Its two species are distributed in the Neotropics: Nomamyrmex esenbeckii is known from southern United States to northern Argentina, and Nomamyrmex hartigii is known from Mexico to southern Brazil. Nomamyrmex esenbeckii is the only known predator of mature colonies of Atta leaf-cutter ants.
Species
- Nomamyrmex esenbeckii (Westwood, 1842)
- Nomamyrmex hartigii (Westwood, 1842)
References
- Bolton, B. (2014). "Nomamyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- "Genus: Nomamyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- Watkins, J. F. (1977). "The species and subspecies of Nomamyrmex (Dorylinae: Formicidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 50 (2): 203–214.
- Swartz, Monica B. (December 1998). "Predation on an Atta cephalotes Colony by an Army Ant, Nomamyrmex esenbeckii". Biotropica. 30 (4): 682–684. Bibcode:1998Biotr..30..682S. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00110.x. S2CID 84970670.
- Powell, S.; Clark, E. (November 2004). "Combat between large derived societies: A subterranean army ant established as a predator of mature leaf-cutting ant colonies". Insectes Sociaux. 51 (4): 342–351. doi:10.1007/s00040-004-0752-2. S2CID 25945437.
- Souza, Jorge L.P.; Moura, Carlos A. R. (2008). "Predation of Ants and Termites by Army Ants, Nomamyrmex esenbeckii (Formicidae, Ecitoninae) in the Brazilian Amazon" (PDF). Sociobiology. 52 (2): 399–402. S2CID 83382512. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-20. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
External links
Media related to Nomamyrmex at Wikimedia Commons
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