Centromyrmex
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| Centromyrmex | |
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| Centromyrmex alfaroi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Centromyrmex Mayr, 1866 |
| Type species | |
| Centromyrmex bohemanni | |
Centromyrmex is a pantropical, though mainly Afrotropical, genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. They are predatory on termites, where a group hunting strategy may be employed,[1] or may prey more generally on invertebrates in the upper soil layer of forests. The worker caste is blind and ill-adapted to surface foraging.
Species
It includes the following species:
- Centromyrmex alfaroi Emery, 1890
- Centromyrmex bequaerti (Forel, 1913)
- Centromyrmex brachycola (Roger, 1861)
- Centromyrmex congolensis Weber, 1949
- Centromyrmex constanciae Arnold, 1915
- Centromyrmex decessor Bolton & Fisher, 2008[2]
- Centromyrmex ereptor Bolton & Fisher, 2008[2]
- Centromyrmex feae (Emery, 1889)
- Centromyrmex fugator Bolton & Fisher, 2008[2]
- Centromyrmex gigas Forel, 1911
- Centromyrmex hamulatus (Karavaiev, 1925)
- Centromyrmex praedator Bolton & Fisher, 2008[2]
- Centromyrmex raptor Bolton & Fisher, 2008[2]
- Centromyrmex secutor Bolton & Fisher, 2008[2]
- Centromyrmex sellaris Mayr, 1896
- Centromyrmex silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)
References
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- ↑ Dejean, A.; Fénéron, R. (20 September 1999). "Predatory behaviour in the ponerine ant, Centromyrmex bequaerti: a case of termitolesty". Behavioural Processes 47 (2): 125–133. doi:10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00060-1. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Barry Bolton & Brian L. Fisher (2008). "Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Zootaxa 1929: 1–37.
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