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Mycetophylax
Sign in to saveMycetophylax is a genus of fungus-growing ants. The genus is characterized exclusively for the New World and is only found on coastal sandy beaches and shallow waters of Brazil.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
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- Specimen records
- 58
- Family
- Formicidae
- Collections
- ASU, UTEP, USNM, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Panama, Nicaragua, Guyana, Brazil, Argentina
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Mycetophylax is a genus of fungus-growing ants. The genus is characterized exclusively for the New World and is only found on coastal sandy beaches and shallow waters of Brazil.
==Species== Mycetophylax andersoni Mycetophylax asper Mycetophylax auritus Mycetophylax bigibbosus Mycetophylax bruchi Mycetophylax clorindae Mycetophylax conformis (Mayr, 1884) Mycetophylax daguerrei Mycetophylax faunulus Mycetophylax lectus Mycetophylax lilloanus Mycetophylax morschi (Emery, 1888) Mycetophylax nemei Mycetophylax occultus Mycetophylax olitor Mycetophylax paniscus Mycetophylax plaumanni Mycetophylax simplex (Emery, 1888) Mycetophylax snellingi Mycetophylax strigatus Mycetophylax vallensis
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