Ectatomma tuberculatum | |
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E. tuberculatum worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
Genus: | Ectatomma |
Species: | E. tuberculatum |
Binomial name | |
Ectatomma tuberculatum (Olivier, 1792) |
Ectatomma tuberculatum is a Neotropical species of ant in the genus Ectatomma. 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.