Adetomyrma

Adetomyrma
A blind A. venatrix worker
A A. venatrix male alate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Adetomyrma". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Yoshimura&Fisher_2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).