Eciton hamatum

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Eciton hamatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ecitoninae
Tribe: Ecitonini
Genus: Eciton
Species: E. hamatum
Binomial name
Eciton hamatum
Fabricius, 1782

Eciton hamatum is a species of army ant in the subfamily Ecitoninae, present from Mexico to central Brazil and Bolivia. This species differs from many others in that it does not fan out into the underbrush when foraging. Rather, it forages in columns, often in trees and preying exclusively on the larvae of other social insects. Prey are often broods of vespid wasps and ants of genera Dolichoderus and Camponotus, suggesting that E. hamatum is mainly an arboreal forager.

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