| Adetomyrma | |
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| A blind A. venatrix worker | |
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| A A. venatrix male alate | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
| Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
| Genus: | Adetomyrma Ward, 1994[1] |
| Type species | |
| Adetomyrma venatrix | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 9 species | |
Adetomyrma is a genus of ants endemic to Madagascar. Workers of this genus are blind.[3] The type species Adetomyrma venatrix was described in 1994, with the genus being an atypical member of its tribe, the Amblyoponini. This tribe includes the Dracula ants, members of which can feed on the hemolymph of larvae and pupae.
- ^ Ward, P. S. (1994). "Adetomyrma, an enigmatic new ant genus from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and its implications for ant phylogeny" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 19 (2): 159–175. Bibcode:1994SysEn..19..159W. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00585.x. S2CID 85356610.
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Adetomyrma". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
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