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Lachnomyrmex of Costa Rica

Lachnomyrmex are all small ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. They have a relatively uniform habitus. They are Neotropical, most often encountered in Winkler or Berlese samples from lowland wet forest.

See revision by Feitosa and Brand‹o (2008).

Literature Cited

Feitosa, R. M., and C. R. F. Brand‹o. 2008. A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical myrmicine ant genus Lachnomyrmex Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1890:1-49.


Page author: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu


Date of this version: 1 April 2009.

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