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  7. Myrmicine Ants
  8. Higher Myrmicine Ants

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Higher Myrmicine Ants

Attini

Includes
89 native 15 introduced 6 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Big-headed Ants 54 native
  • Mustache and Pygmy Snapping Ants 17 native
  • Fungus-growing Ants 14 native
  • Turtle Ants 4 native
  • Electric Ant
  • Eurhopalothrix

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native higher myrmicine ants All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Chicatana Leafcutter Ant Atta mexicana 9,048 observations
  • Texas Leafcutter Ant Atta texana 6,587 observations
  • Northern Fungus-farming Ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis 2,518 observations
  • Variable Big-headed Ant Pheidole bicarinata 1,534 observations
  • Toothed Big-headed Ant Pheidole dentata 1,518 observations
  • Desert Leaf-cutter Ant Acromyrmex versicolor 1,248 observations
  • Tyson's Big-headed Ant Pheidole tysoni 481 observations
  • Bilimek's Big-headed Ant Pheidole bilimeki 473 observations
  • Pheidole rhea 439 observations
  • Hyatt's Big-headed Ant Pheidole hyatti 372 observations
  • Metallic Big-headed Ant Pheidole metallescens 349 observations
  • Morris' Big-headed Ant Pheidole morrisii 334 observations
  • Hairy Big-headed Ant Pheidole pilifera 331 observations
  • Pheidole xerophila 266 observations
  • Blunt-spined Big-headed Ant Pheidole obtusospinosa 262 observations
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