Bothriomyrmex

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Bothriomyrmex
B. paradoxus worker from Costa Rica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Bothriomyrmecini
Genus: Bothriomyrmex
Emery, 1869
Type species
Bothriomyrmex costae
Emery, 1869
Diversity[1]
23 species

Bothriomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2]

The genus is widely distributed in the Old World and Australia, where it is found nesting in a wide range of habitats (including grasslands, savanna woodlands, mallee forests and lowland rainforest). They nest in soil or in rotten wood.[3]

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