Stigmatomma trigonignathum
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Genus: | Stigmatomma |
Species: | S. trigonignathum
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Binomial name | |
Stigmatomma trigonignathum (Brown, 1949)
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Stigmatomma trigonignathum is a species of ant in the subfamily Amblyoponinae. It is considered one of the rarest ants in the world, only known from one specimen collected in 1948[1] and another observed in 2008. Both records are from the Piedmont region of North Carolina.[2]
Description
[edit]The 1948 type specimen is 6.12 mm long, including mandibles but excluding stinger. It is mostly uniform ferruginous in color.[1]
References
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- ^ a b Brown, W. L. (1949). "A new American Amblyopone, with notes on the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 56 (2): 81–88. doi:10.1155/1949/67378.
- ^ Guénard, Benoit; McCaffrey, Katherine A.; Lucky, Andrea; Dunn, Rob R. (2012). "Ants of North Carolina: An updated list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Zootaxa. 3552: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3552.1.1.