Genus of ants

Nomamyrmex

N. esenbeckii media worker
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Hymenoptera

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Formicidae

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Dorylinae

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Nomamyrmex

Borgmeier, 1936

Type species
Eciton crassicornis

Diversity[1]
2 species

Nomamyrmex is a genus of army ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.[2] 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.[3] Nomamyrmex esenbeckii is the only known predator of mature colonies of Atta leaf-cutter ants.[4][5][6]

## Species[edit]

* Nomamyrmex esenbeckii (Westwood, 1842)
* Nomamyrmex hartigii (Westwood, 1842)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Nomamyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. ^ "Genus: Nomamyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. ^ Watkins, J. F. (1977). "The species and subspecies of Nomamyrmex (Dorylinae: Formicidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 50 (2): 203–214.
4. ^ Swartz, Monica B. (December 1998). "Predation on an Atta cephalotes Colony by an Army Ant, Nomamyrmex esenbeckii". Biotropica. 30 (4): 682–684. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00110.x. S2CID 84970670.
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ 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[edit]

* Media related to Nomamyrmex at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q4045448
* Wikispecies: Nomamyrmex
* BOLD: 7666
* BugGuide: 719977
* CoL: 64QM
* EoL: 32652
* GBIF: 1320526
* iNaturalist: 250463
* IRMNG: 1208955
* ITIS: 573946
* NCBI: 232161

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