| Azteca | |
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| Azteca adrepens worker fromParaguay | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Azteca Forel, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Liometopum xanthochroum Roger, 1863 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 86 species | |
Azteca is a strictlyNeotropicalgenus ofants in thesubfamilyDolichoderinae.[2] The genus is very diverse and contains around 84 extantspecies and two fossil species. They are essentially arboreal and many species havemutualistic associations with particular plant species, where the genusCecropia presents the most conspicuous association.[3] In the Brazilian Amazonia,Azteca species are associated with species ofCodonanthopsis.[4]
This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose:Cardoso, D.; Cristiano, M. P.; Barros, L. S.; Lopes, D.; Pompolo, S. (2012)."First cytogenetic characterization of a species of the arboreal ant genusAzteca Forel, 1978 (Dolichoderinae, Formicidae)".Comparative Cytogenetics.6 (2):107–14.doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v6i2.2397.PMC 3833797.PMID 24260655. Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.
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