Pseudomyrmex

is a largely tropical genus of elongate ants, usually arboreal, found throughout the warmer regions of the new world. Several Central American species have evolved complex and specialized relationships with the Acacia plants they inhabit.

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alexwild > Pseudomyrmex apache

Northern California, USA

alexwild > Pseudomyrmex apache. Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex inhabit pre-existing cavities in wood and vegetation, in this case an old wood-boring beetle burrow.

Tucson, Arizona, USA

alexwild > Pseudomyrmex denticollis, unusual for its genus, nests in the ground. Here, a worker carries a bit of excavated earth out of the nest.

Frías, Santiago de Estero, Argentina

alexwild > Pseudomyrmex denticollis, a soil-nesting species.

Frías, Santiago de Estero, Argentina

alexwild > Pseudomyrmex ejectus

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

alexwild > Pseudomyrmex ejectus nests in hollow twigs. Here a worker poses by the nest entrance.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

alexwild > Cracking open a twig reveals a small nest of Pseudomyrmex ejectus. The elongate shape of these gracile insects allows them to maneuver in tight spaces.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis, with larva.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

Pseudomyrmex apache

Northern California, USA

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