Blepharidatta
Sign in to saveBlepharidatta is a rare Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus, formed by predatory species whose small colonies nest in soil or leaf-litter, has up to seven species, but most of them are waiting for a formal taxonomic treatment or confirmation.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
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Blepharidatta is a rare Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus, formed by predatory species whose small colonies nest in soil or leaf-litter, has up to seven species, but most of them are waiting for a formal taxonomic treatment or confirmation.
==Species== Blepharidatta brasiliensis Wheeler, 1915 Blepharidatta conops Kempf, 1967 In 2015 two new species were described: Blepharidatta delabiei sp. n. Brandão et al., 2015 Blepharidatta fernandezi sp. n. Brandão et al., 2015