Oecophylla longinoda
| Oecophylla longinoda | |
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| Oecophylla longinoda on the uluguru Mountains in Morogoro Tanzania | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Oecophylla |
| Species: | O. longinoda |
| Binomial name | |
| Oecophylla longinoda Latreille, 1802[1] | |
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| Oecophylla range map. Oecophylla longinoda in blue, Oecophylla smaragdina in red.[1] | |
Oecophylla longinoda (common name weaver ant) is a species of arboreal ant found in the forested regions of tropical Africa. They are one of only two extant species of the genus Oecophylla, the other being O. smaragdina. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae.
References
- 1 2 Dlussky, Gennady M.; Torsten Wappler; Sonja Wedmann (2008). "New middle Eocene formicid species from Germany and the evolution of weaver ants" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 615–626. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0406.
External links
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