| Myrmecocystus | |
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| Myrmecocystus sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Myrmecocystus Wesmael, 1838 |
| Species | |
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6 recognized species, see article. |
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Myrmecocystus is a North American genus of ants. It is one of five genera that includes honeypot ants.[1] Worker ants keep and tend plerergates, which are other ants that store large quantities of nutritious fluid in their abdomens to feed the colony during famine times. There
Species include:[2]