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Dolopomyrmex

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Dolopomyrmex
Dolopomyrmex pilatus worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Dolopomyrmex
Cover & Deyrup, 2007
Species:
D. pilatus
Binomial name
Dolopomyrmex pilatus
Cover & Deyrup, 2007

Dolopomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Dolopomyrmex pilatus.[1]

Distribution and habitat

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The genus is known from the western and the southwestern United States, where the ants live in arid desert habitats, likely with an almost exclusively subterranean life style.[2]

Etymology

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The genus name is derived from ancient Greek dolops, dolopos ("lurker in ambush") + Greek myrmex, myrmekos ("ant"); the specific name of the type species (D. pilatus) is derived from the pilum (a javelin commonly used by the Roman army), making Dolopomyrmex pilatus the "spear-bearing ambush ant".[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Genus: Dolopomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b Cover, S. P; Deyrup, M. (2007). "A new ant genus from the southwestern United States". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 80: 89–99.
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