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    Megalomyrmex is a genus of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is known only from the Neotropics, where some of the species are specialized parasites...
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    Megalomyrmex drifti is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The species is widespread in tropical South America, north through Central...
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  • Megalomyrmex adamsae is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Megalomyrmex adamsae, known from Panama, is very similar to M. symmetochus...
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    Megalomyrmex silvestrii is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Megalomyrmex silvestrii is widespread in the mainland Neotropics...
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  • Megalomyrmex reina is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Described in 2010, this species is known only from queens from Costa Rica...
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  • Megalomyrmex symmetochus is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is native to Panama. This ant is also known as the parasitic guest ant. M...
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    Megalomyrmex incisus is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The species is known from southern Mexico south to central Brazil and...
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  • Megalomyrmex nocarina is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Megalomyrmex nocarina occurs in mature wet forest habitats of the Atlantic...
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  • Megalomyrmex foreli (named after Auguste Forel) is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The species is known from Costa Rica south...
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  • Megalomyrmex acauna is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Known from Brasil and Peru. It is similar to M. leoninus-group. Its head...
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  • Megalomyrmex wettereri is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Megalomyrmex wettereri is known from two lowland rainforest sites:...
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  • Megalomyrmex mondaboroides (the name refers to its similarity to M. mondabora) is a Neotropical species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Megalomyrmex...
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  • Megalomyrmex miri is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Known from Costa Rica. This species is known only from the type specimens...
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  • Megalomyrmex modestus is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Known from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela. In Costa Rica,...
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  • Megalomyrmex mondabora is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Known from Costa Rica. In Costa Rica this species occurs in wet forest...
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  • Megalomyrmex wallacei is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Megalomyrmex wallacei can be found in Brazil (Amazonas, Rondônia, Pará...
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    used for developing larvae. Many species of ants, including several Megalomyrmex, invade fungus-growing ant colonies and either steal from and destroy...
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    Epelysidris Bolton, 1987 Kempfidris Fernández, Feitosa & Lattke, 2014 Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885 Monomorium Mayr, 1855 Myrmicaria Saunders, 1842 Oxyepoecus...
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    These instances were the attine ants and some ants that are part of the Megalomyrmex genus. In some species, the ants and fungi are dependent on each other...
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  • M. silvestrii may refer to: Megalomyrmex silvestrii, Wheeler, 1909, an ant species in the genus Megalomyrmex Mosfora silvestrii, Roewer, 1925, a harvestman...
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  • M. leoninus may refer to: Megalomyrmex leoninus, an ant species in the genus Megalomyrmex Mermessus leoninus, a spider species in the genus Mermessus...
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    Brachymyrmex goeldii, Dorymyrmex goeldii dubius, Paratrechina goeldii, Megalomyrmex goeldii, Myrmelachista goeldii, Neivamyrmex goeldii, Solenopsis goeldii...
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    queens of Megalomyrmex foreli are distinct from workers, with an enlarged gaster, while the ergatoid queens of closely related Megalomyrmex wallacei are...
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  • 1902 9 Mayriella abstinens Mayriella abstinens Megalomyrmex Forel 1885 44 Megalomyrmex leoninus Megalomyrmex leoninus Melissotarsus Emery 1877 4 Melissotarsus...
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    observed tending the caterpillars: Ectatomma tuberculatum, Pheidole sp., Megalomyrmex balzani, and Paraponera clavata. Adult butterflies exhibited kleptoparasitism...
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    Kempfidris Fernández, Feitosa & Lattke, 2014 Machomyrma Forel, 1895 Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885 Monomorium Mayr, 1855 Myrmicaria Saunders, 1842 Oxyepoecus...
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    Phacota were synonymized with Monomorium. The small genera Anillomyrma, Megalomyrmex, and perhaps Bondroita should possibly also be included in Monomorium...
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  • duloticus Leptothorax faberi Leptothorax minutissimus Manica parasitica Megalomyrmex symmetochus Monomorium effractor Monomorium hospitum Monomorium inquilinum...
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    observed in host associations between C. cornutus and its social parasite Megalomyrmex mondabora, alkaloids in the venom of the parasite cause less aggressive...
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  • duloticus Leptothorax faberi Leptothorax minutissimus Manica parasitica Megalomyrmex symmetochus Monomorium effractor Monomorium hospitum Monomorium inquilinum...
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