Xenomyrmex
Genus of ants
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Xenomyrmex is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is known from Florida (United States), the West Indies, and from Mexico to at least Panama. They nest in cavities of living or dead plants.[3]
| Xenomyrmex | |
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| Xenomyrmex stollii worker from Brazil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Alliance: | Cataulacus genus group |
| Genus: | Xenomyrmex Forel, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| Xenomyrmex stollii Forel, 1885 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Myrmecinella Wheeler, W.M., 1922 | |
Species
- Xenomyrmex floridanus Emery, 1895
- Xenomyrmex panamanus (Wheeler, 1922)
- Xenomyrmex picquarti (Forel, 1899)
- Xenomyrmex stollii Forel, 1885
