Pergande’s Mustache Ant

Strumigenys pergandei

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae

Strumigenys is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is a widespread, speciose genus of small ants with cryptic lifestyles that are predators of small arthropod prey. Biology Nesting and Foraging Strumigenys are small ants with mainly predatory diets, though they may occasionally feed on sugar sources such as extrafloral nectaries as well.

Distribution

Pergande’s Mustache Ant — (c) Emmett Collins-Sussman, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 29

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Emmett Collins-Sussman, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionStrumigenys, Wikipedia contributors

Pergande’s Mustache Ant

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