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Pseudomyrmex

{{short description|Genus of ants}}

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| image = Graceful Twig Ant, Wedgefield, FL 32833, USA imported from iNaturalist photo 41524769.jpg

| image_caption = P. gracilis (elongate twig ant) with caterpillar prey

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| taxon = Pseudomyrmex

| authority = Lund, 1831

| diversity_link = #Species

| diversity = 146 species

| diversity_ref = {{AntCat|429409|Pseudomyrmex|2014|accessdate=3 July 2014}}

| type_species = Formica gracilis

| type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1804

| synonyms = Apedunculata Enzmann, 1944

Clavanoda Enzmann, 1944

Latinoda Enzmann, 1944

Leptalea Erichson, 1839

Myrmex Guérin-Méneville, 1844

Ornatinoda Enzmann, 1944

Pseudomyrma Guérin-Méneville, 1844

Triangulinoda Enzmann, 1944

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Pseudomyrmex is a genus of stinging, wasp-like ants in the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae. They are large-eyed, slender ants, found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of the New World.

Distribution and habitat

Pseudomyrmex is predominantly Neotropical in distribution, but a few species are known from the Nearctic region. Most species are generalist twig nesters, for instance, Pseudomyrmex pallidus may nest in the hollow stems of dead grasses, twigs of herbaceous plants, and in dead, woody twigs.{{cite journal |author=Phillip S. Ward |year=1985 |title=The Neartic species of the genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=Quaestiones Entomologicae |volume=21 |pages=209–246 |url=https://archive.org/details/ants_02952}} However, the genus is best known for several species that are obligate mutualists with certain species of Acacia.Gómez-Acevedo, Sandra; Rico-Arce, Lourdes; Delgado-Salinas, Alfonso; Magallón, Susana; Eguiarte, Luis E. Neotropical mutualism between Acacia and Pseudomyrmex: Phylogeny and divergence times. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (2010) 393–408 Other species have evolved obligate mutualism with other trees; for example Pseudomyrmex triplarinus is obligately dependent on any of a few trees in the genus Triplaris.Larrea-Alcázar, D. M. and J. A. Simonetti. (2007). [http://www.conservacion.cl/Quienes/JAS/165.pdf Why are there few seedlings beneath the myrmecophyte Triplaris americana?.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002053626/http://www.conservacion.cl/Quienes/JAS/165.pdf |date=2013-10-02 }} Acta Oecologica 32(1) 112–18.{{cite journal|last=Ward|first=Philip S.|title=Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|date=1 August 1999|volume=126|issue=4|pages=451–540|doi=10.1006/zjls.1998.0158|doi-access=free}}

File:Pseudomyrmex acanthobius casent0173746 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex apache casent0102906 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex browni casent0005835 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex caeciliae casent0103315 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex cubaensis casent0173759 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex denticollis casent0173748 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex ejectus casent0102683 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus casent0005785 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex flavicornis casent0005786 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex osurus casent0005847 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex simplex casent0173776 profile 1.jpg]]

File:Pseudomyrmex termitarius casent0173786 profile 1.jpg]]

Species

{{see also|List of Pseudomyrmex species}}

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References

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{{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Pseudomyrmex&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: Pseudomyrmex |date= |website=antweb.org |publisher=AntWeb |access-date=11 October 2013}}

{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00077.x| title = The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Generic revision and relationship to other formicids| journal = Systematic Entomology| volume = 15| issue = 4| pages = 449–489| year = 1990| last1 = Ward | first1 = P. S. | bibcode = 1990SysEn..15..449W| s2cid = 86012514| url = https://zenodo.org/record/24961}}

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External links

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Category:Pseudomyrmecinae

Category:Ant genera

Category:Hymenoptera of South America

Category:Hymenoptera of North America

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