| Azteca | |
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| Azteca adrepens worker from Paraguay | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Azteca Forel, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Liometopum xanthochroum Roger, 1863
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 86 species | |
Azteca is a strictly Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2] The genus is very diverse and contains around 84 extant species and two fossil species. They are essentially arboreal and many species have mutualistic associations with particular plant species, where the genus Cecropia presents the most conspicuous association.[3] In the Brazilian Amazonia, Azteca species are associated with species of Codonanthopsis.[4]
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Azteca". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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Cardoso_et_al._2012was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Marini-Filho, Onildo J. (1999). "Distribution, composition, and dispersal of ant gardens and tending ants in three kinds of central Amazonian habitats". Tropical Zoology. 12 (2): 289–296. Bibcode:1999TrZoo..12..289M. doi:10.1080/03946975.1999.10539395.