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Ectatomminae
Subfamily of ants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ectatomminae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes.[2] The subfamily was described in 2003 when Barry Bolton divided the Ponerinae subfamily into six subfamilies.[3]
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Ectatomminae | |
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Green-head ant (Rhytidoponera metallica) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ectatomminae Emery, 1895 |
Type genus | |
Ectatomma Smith, 1858 | |
Diversity[1] | |
7 genera |
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