Ochetomyrmex
Genus of ants
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Ochetomyrmex is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2]
| Ochetomyrmex | |
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| Ochetomyrmex semipolitus worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Ochetomyrmex Mayr, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Ochetomyrmex semipolitus Mayr, 1878 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 2 species | |
Distribution
The genus is restricted to the Neotropical region, where the ants nest in soil or in the leaf litter. Ochetomyrmex neopolitus is known from northern South America, from Colombia and Guyana to the Brazilian Amazon. Ochetomyrmex semipolitus has a wider distribution, ranging from Guyana and Brazil to northern Argentina.[3]
Species
- Ochetomyrmex neopolitus Fernández, 2003
- Ochetomyrmex semipolitus Mayr, 1878
