Ectatomma tuberculatum

Ectatomma tuberculatum
Ectatomma tuberculatum worker
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Ectatomma
Species:
E. tuberculatum
Binomial name
Ectatomma tuberculatum
(Olivier, 1792)

Ectatomma tuberculatum is a Neotropical species of ant in the subfamily Ectatomminae. Common in the Neotropics, the species is found from Mexico to Argentina. It is a host to the related social parasite Ectatomma parasiticum, the only known parasitic species in the subfamily Ectatomminae.

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