Azteca (ant)

Azteca
Azteca adrepens worker from Paraguay
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
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]

  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Azteca". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cardoso_et_al._2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ 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.