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last updated 12.Nov.2007


Pseudomyrmex (twig ants)

Pseudomyrmex are elongate ants, usually arboreal, found throughout the warmer regions of the new world. Species in the ferrugineus group of Central America have evolved complex and specialized relationships with the Acacia plants they inhabit.


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Acacia-inhabiting species:

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Pseudomyrmex spinicola

Panamanian Ant-Acacia

Panamanian Ant-Acacia

Panamanian Ant-Acacia

Acacia beltian bodies

Panamanian Ant-Acacia

Panamanian Ant-Acacia

Acacia melanocera & Homo sapiens

Guatemalan Ant-Acacia

Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus

Nearctic species:

Pseudomyrmex apache

Pseudomyrmex apache

Pseudomyrmex apache

Pseudomyrmex apache

Pseudomyrmex apache

Pseudomyrmex apache

Pseudomyrmex pallidus

Pseudomyrmex pallidus

Pseudomyrmex pallidus

Pseudomyrmex pallidus

Neotropical species (non-Acacia):

Pseudomyrmex boopis

Pseudomyrmex championi

Pseudomyrmex denticollis

Pseudomyrmex denticollis

Pseudomyrmex denticollis

Pseudomyrmex gracilis

Pseudomyrmex gracilis

Pseudomyrmex gracilis

Pseudomyrmex kuenckeli

Pseudomyrmex kuenckeli

Pseudomyrmex kuenckeli

Pseudomyrmex kuenckeli

Pseudomyrmex termitarius

Pseudomyrmex termitarius

Pseudomyrmex termitarius

Pseudomyrmex sp. nr. pallidus


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