Ectatomma tuberculatum
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| Ectatomma tuberculatum | |
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| Ectatomma tuberculatum worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Genus: | Ectatomma |
| Species: | E. tuberculatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectatomma tuberculatum (Olivier, 1792) | |
Ectatomma tuberculatum, known in Qʼeqchiʼ as the kelep,[1] is a Neotropical species of ant in the subfamily Ectatomminae.[2] Common in the Neotropics, the species is found from Mexico to Argentina.[3] It is a host to the related social parasite Ectatomma parasiticum, the only known parasitic species in the subfamily Ectatomminae.[4]
