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Ectatomma tuberculatum

{{Short description|Neotropical species of ant}}

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| image = Ectatomma tuberculatum casent0173380 profile 1.jpg

| image_caption = Ectatomma tuberculatum worker

| genus = Ectatomma

| species = tuberculatum

| authority = (Olivier, 1792)

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Ectatomma tuberculatum, known in Qʼeqchiʼ as the kelep,{{Cite web|url=https://ants.biology.utah.edu/genera/Ectatomma/species/tuberculatum/tuberculatum.html|title=Formicidae: Ectatomma tuberculatum|website=ants.biology.utah.edu}} 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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{{AntCat|437134|Ectatomma tuberculatum|2015|accessdate=1 February 2015}}

{{cite book |last1=Arias-Penna |first1=T. M. |editor1-last=Jiménez|editor1-first=E.|editor2-last= Fernández|editor2-first=F.|editor3-last=Arias|editor3-first=T.M. |display-editors = 3 |editor4-last=Lozano-Zambrano|editor4-first=F. H.| year=2008 |chapter=Subfamilia Ectatomminae |title=Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia |language=es |pages=53–107 |chapter-url=https://www.antcat.org/references/130683 }}

{{Cite journal | last1 = Fénéron | first1 = R. E. | last2 = Poteaux | first2 = C. | last3 = Boilève | first3 = M. | last4 = Valenzuela | first4 = J. | last5 = Savarit | first5 = F. | title = Discrimination of the social parasite Ectatomma parasiticum by its host sibling species (E. tuberculatum) | doi = 10.1155/2013/573541 | journal = Psyche: A Journal of Entomology | volume = 2013 | pages = 1–11| year = 2013 | doi-access = free }}

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Category:Ectatomminae

Category:Hymenoptera of North America

Category:Hymenoptera of South America

Category:Insects of Central America

Category:Insects described in 1792

Category:Taxa named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier

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