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Daceton

Daceton is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus contains only two species: D. armigerum, the most studied species, distributed throughout northern South America, and D. boltoni, known from Brazil and Peru.

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Daceton
D. armigerum worker from Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Daceton
Perty, 1833
Type species
Formica armigera
Latreille, 1802
Diversity1
2 species
Synonyms

Dacetum Agassiz, 1846

Daceton is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.2 The genus contains only two species: D. armigerum, the most studied species, distributed throughout northern South America,3 and D. boltoni, known from Brazil and Peru.4

Trap-jawed ants: Strumigenys, Daceton, Odontomachus, Anochetus, Myrmoteras source ↗

Species

References

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Daceton". AntCat. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  2. "Genus: Daceton". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. Dejean, A.; Delabie, J. H. C.; Corbara, B.; Azémar, F. D.; Groc, S.; Orivel, J. R. M.; Leponce, M. (2012). Hughes, William (ed.). "The Ecology and Feeding Habits of the Arboreal Trap-Jawed Ant Daceton armigerum". PLOS ONE. 7 (5): 1–8. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...737683D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037683. PMC 3380855. PMID 22737205.
  4. Azorsa, Frank; Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey (2008), "Description of a remarkable new species of ant in the genus Daceton Perty (Formicidae: Dacetini) from South America." (PDF), Zootaxa, 1749: 27–38, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1749.1.3
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