Paramycetophylax
Genus of ants
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Paramycetophylax is a genus of fungus-growing ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[1] It contains the single species Paramycetophylax bruchi, known only from Argentina.[2] Workers collect leaflets from Prosopis flexuosa that they bring back to the nest to act as substrate for the fungus.[3]
| Paramycetophylax | |
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| Paramycetophylax bruchi worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Paramycetophylax Kusnezov, 1956 |
| Species: | P. bruchi |
| Binomial name | |
| Paramycetophylax bruchi Kusnezov, 1956 | |