| Apomyrma | |
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| Apomyrma stygia worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Apomyrminae Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988 |
| Tribe: | Apomyrmini Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988 |
| Genus: | Apomyrma Brown, Gotwald & Levieux 1970 |
| Species: | A. stygia
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| Binomial name | |
| Apomyrma stygia Brown, Gotwald & Levieux 1970
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Apomyrma stygia is a species of ant found in West Africa, first described in 1970.1 It is the only species in the genus Apomyrma, tribe Apomyrmini, and subfamily Apomyrminae.2 It has been suggested the ant primarily lives in tropical forests, and apparently belongs to a guild of centipede-feeding ants.1
References
References
- Brown W. L. Jr.; W. H. Gotwald; Jean Lévieux Jr. (1970). "A new genus of ponerine ants from West Africa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with ecological notes". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 77 (3): 259–275. doi:10.1155/1970/64703.
- "Apomyrminae - AntCat".
External links
External links
- Saux, Corrie; Fisher, Brian L.; Spicer, Greg S. (November 2004). "Dracula ant phylogeny as inferred by nuclear 28S rDNA sequences and implications for ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 33 (2): 457–468. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.06.017. PMID 15336679.
- Media related to Apomyrma stygia at Wikimedia Commons