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| Eciton hamatum Fabricius, 1782 |
Eciton hamatum is a species of army ant in the subfamily Ecitoninae, present from Mexico to central Brazil and Bolivia. Johan Christian Fabricius ( January 7, 1745 - March 3, 1808) was a Danish Entomologist and economist In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. The name army ant (or legionary ant or " Marabunta " is applied to over 200 Ant species in different lineages due to their aggressive predatory In Biological classification, family ( Latin Most New World Army ants belong to the Subfamily Ecitoninae. This subfamily is further broken into two groups in the New World the tribes The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The Republic of Bolivia (República de Bolivia) named after Simón Bolívar, is a Landlocked country in central South America. This species differs from many others in that it does not fan out into the underbrush when foraging. Rather, it forages in columns, often in trees and preying exclusively on the larvae of other social insects. A larva ( Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of Animal with indirect development, undergoing Metamorphosis (for example Eusociality ( Greek eu: "good" + "social" is a term used for the highest level of social organization in a hierarchical classification Prey are often broods of vespid wasps and ants of genera Dolichoderus and Camponotus, suggesting that E. The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species diverse cosmopolitan family of Wasps including nearly all the known Eusocial wasps and many Solitary Carpenter ants are large Ants (¼ in –1 in indigenous to many parts of the world hamatum is mainly an arboreal forager. Arboreal is a word meaning "related to or resembling trees"
References
- Longino, John T. (16 July 2005). Formicidae: Eciton hamatum. The Evergreen State College. Retrieved on 2007-02-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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