Mycetophylax
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| Mycetophylax | |
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| Mycetophylax conformis worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Mycetophylax Emery, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Myrmicocrypta brittoni[1] | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 21 species | |
Mycetophylax is a genus of fungus-growing ants. The genus is characterized exclusively for the New World and is only found on coastal sandy beaches and shallow waters of Brazil.[3]