Acropyga epedana is an ant in the subfamily Formicinae. It lives permanently underground in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona and forms a mutualistic...

1914) Acropyga epedana Snelling, 1973 Acropyga exsanguis (Wheeler, 1909) Acropyga fuhrmanni (Forel, 1914) Acropyga gelasis LaPolla, 2004 †Acropyga glaesaria...

Acropyga and their trophobiont is suggested to be such that neither can survive without the other. An experiment using a captive colony of A. epedana...