Chimaeridris is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus contains two species known from tropical Asia. Their unique hook-shaped mandibles and similar appearance to Pheidole minor workers raises the possibility that the genus is a slave-maker of Pheidole ants or a specialized predator.
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Chimaeridris is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus contains two species known from tropical Asia. Their unique hook-shaped mandibles and similar appearance to Pheidole minor workers raises the possibility that the genus is a slave-maker of Pheidole ants or a specialized predator.
==Species== Chimaeridris boltoni Wilson, 1989 – Sulawesi Chimaeridris burckhardti Wilson, 1989 – Sabah
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).