Atopomyrmex
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| Atopomyrmex | |
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| Atopomyrmex mocquerysi worker from the Central African Republic | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Atopomyrmex André, 1889 |
| Type species | |
| Atopomyrmex mocquerysi André, 1889 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 3 species | |
Atopomyrmex is a small genus of arboreal ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is known from the Afrotropics, where they nest in living wood and forage in the vegetation or on the ground.[3]
