Bothriomyrmex | |
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B. paradoxus worker from Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Bothriomyrmecini |
Genus: | Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 |
Type species | |
Bothriomyrmex costae Emery, 1869
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Diversity[1] | |
23 species |
Bothriomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2]
The genus is widely distributed in the Old World and Australia, where it is found nesting in a wide range of habitats (including grasslands, savanna woodlands, mallee forests and lowland rainforest). They nest in soil or in rotten wood.[3]