Daceton is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus contains only two species: D. armigerum, the most studied species, distributed throughout northern South America,[3] and D. boltoni, known from Brazil and Peru.[4]
| Daceton | |
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| D. armigerum worker from Brazil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Daceton Perty, 1833 |
| Type species | |
| Formica armigera Latreille, 1802
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 2 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Dacetum Agassiz, 1846 | |
Species
edit- Daceton armigerum (Latreille, 1802)
- Daceton boltoni Azorsa & Sosa-Calvo, 2008
References
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Daceton". AntCat. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ "Genus: Daceton". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Dejean, A.; Delabie, J. H. C.; Corbara, B.; Azémar, F. D.; Groc, S.; Orivel, J. R. M.; Leponce, M. (2012). Hughes, William (ed.). "The Ecology and Feeding Habits of the Arboreal Trap-Jawed Ant Daceton armigerum". PLOS ONE. 7 (5): 1–8. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...737683D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037683. PMC 3380855. PMID 22737205.
- ^ Azorsa, Frank; Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey (2008), "Description of a remarkable new species of ant in the genus Daceton Perty (Formicidae: Dacetini) from South America." (PDF), Zootaxa, 1749: 27–38, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1749.1.3
External links
editMedia related to Daceton at Wikimedia Commons