Ecitonini

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ecitonini
Eciton burchellii army ants
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ecitoninae
Tribe: Ecitonini
Forel, 1893
Type genus
Eciton[1]
Genera

See text

Ecitonini is a New World army ant tribe containing most of the familiar species of army ants. The genus Neivamyrmex is the largest of all army ant genera, containing some 120 species, most in the Neotropics but some with ranges in the United States.

Species

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2013), "An online catalog of the ants of the world.", AntCat, retrieved 13 October 2013 

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.