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Acanthomyrmex
Sign in to saveAcanthomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is known from South East Asia. Its species are dimorphic, with major workers in some genera having heads twice the length (and ten times the volume) of those of the minor workers. They live in small colonies and are rarely collected in the field. There are 17 species of Acanthomyrmex.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
Taxonomy. The genus Acanthomyrmex is assigned to the tribe Myrmecinini together with Myrmecina, Perissomyrmex and Pristomyrmex (Bolton 2003). Workers of Vietnamese species have the following features (see also Moffett 1986; Eguchi et al. 2008). Worker dimorphic; frontal lobe reduced, in full-face view only partially concealing the torulus; frontal carina present, usually conspicuous; antennal scrobe present, usually conspicuous; anteromedian margin of clypeus weakly convex with a shallow median emargination in major; anteromedian margin of clypeus always armed with 2 to several processes in minor; median clypeal seta reduced or absent in major, but always present in minor; lateral portions of clypeus not forming a conspicuous ridge in front of torulus in major, but raised into a ridge in front of torulus in minor; mandible in major massive, edentate or armed with a few indistinct teeth on masticatory margin; mandible in minor broadly triangular, and armed with 5-10 small to tiny teeth in addition to relatively conspicuous apical and preapical teeth; antenna 12-segmented, with 3-segmented club; eye moderately developed; mesosoma short and robust especially in major; promesonotal sut
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Acanthomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is known from South East Asia. Its species are dimorphic, with major workers in some genera having heads twice the length (and ten times the volume) of those of the minor workers. They live in small colonies and are rarely collected in the field. There are 17 species of Acanthomyrmex.
==List of species== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="width:100%;text-align:center" !scope="col"|Scientific name !scope="col"|Authority !scope="col" class="unsortable"|Major worker picture !scope="col" class="unsortable"|Minor worker picture |- |Acanthomyrmex basispinosus |Moffett, 1986 |180px|alt= |180px|alt= |- |Acanthomyrmex careoscrobis |Moffett, 1986 | |180px|alt= |- |Acanthomyrmex concavus |Moffett, 1986 |180px|alt= |180px|alt= |- |Acanthomyrmex crassispinus |Wheeler, W.M., 1930 | |180px|alt= |- |Acanthomyrmex dusun |Wheeler, W.M., 1919 |180px|alt= | |- |Acanthomyrmex ferox |Emery, 1893 |180px|alt= |180px|alt= |- |Acanthomyrmex foveolatus |Moffett, 1986 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex glabfemoralis |Zhou & Zheng, 1997 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex humilis |Eguchi, Bui & Yamane, 2008 |180px|alt= | |- |Acanthomyrmex laevis |Moffett, 1986 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex luciolae |Emery, 1893 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex mindanao |Moffett, 1986 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex minus |Terayama, Ito & Gobin, 1998 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex notabilis |Smith, F., 1860 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex padanensis |Terayama, Ito & Gobin, 1998 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex sulawesiensis |Terayama, Ito & Gobin, 1998 | | |- |Acanthomyrmex thailandensis |Terayama, 1995 |center|frameless | |}