Cyatta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Cyatta Sosa-Calvo et al., 2013 |
Species: | C. abscondita
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Binomial name | |
Cyatta abscondita Sosa-Calvo et al., 2013
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Cyatta is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Cyatta abscondita. It is considered the most recent ancestor of all fungus-farming ants and a living fossil.[1]