Arizona Fungus-farming Ant

Trachymyrmex arizonensis

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

Arizona Fungus-farming Ant — (c) Jake Nitta, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jake Nitta · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 52Mexico · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Jake Nitta, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jake Nitta · CC-BY DescriptionStrumigenys, Wikipedia contributors

Arizona Fungus-farming Ant

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