Lathidris
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| Lathidris | |
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| A worker specimen of L. melina on AntWeb | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Lathidris Ward et al. 2025 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 3 species | |
Lathidris is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae, consisting of three species, and native to Mexico and Central America. Its species were previously in the genus Camponotus as the Camponotus montivagus species group under subgenus Myrmentoma, although Ward et al. 2025 split it out into its own genus with phylogenetic analysis. Its scientific name means "ant that escaped notice" from ancient Greek látho + idris.[2]