Pseudomyrmex boopis Armenia, Belize - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Pseudomyrmex

is a largely tropical genus of elongate ants, usually arboreal, found throughout the warmer regions of the New World. Several Central American species have evolved complex and specialized relationships with the Acacia plants they inhabit.

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Pseudomyrmex apache

Northern California, USA

Pseudomyrmex apache. Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex inhabit pre-existing cavities in wood and vegetation, in this case an old wood-boring beetle burrow.

Tucson, Arizona, USA

The brightly-colored Pseudomyrmex boopis.

Icononzo, Tolima, Colombia

Pseudomyrmex boopis

Alluriquin, Ecuador

Pseudomyrmex denticollis, a soil-nesting species.

Frías, Santiago de Estero, Argentina

Pseudomyrmex denticollis, unusually for its genus, nests in the ground. Here, a worker carries a bit of excavated earth out of the nest.

Frías, Santiago de Estero, Argentina

Pseudomyrmex ejectus

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

Pseudomyrmex ejectus nests in hollow twigs. Here a worker poses by the nest entrance.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

Pseudomyrmex boopis

Armenia, Belize

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Keywords: compound eyes tropical ant arboreal big eyed ants pseudomyrmex boopis

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