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Daceton

Daceton
Daceton armigerum casent0178489 dorsal 1.jpg
D. armigerum worker from Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Daceton
Perty, 1833
Type species
Formica armigera
Latreille, 1802
Diversity
2 species
Synonyms

Dacetum Agassiz, 1846


Dacetum Agassiz, 1846

Daceton is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus contains only two species: D. armigerum, the most studied species, distributed throughout northern South America, and D. boltoni, known from Brazil and Peru.



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