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Ochetellus
Ochetellus is a genus of ants first described by Steve Shattuck in 1992. He placed it in the subfamily Dolichoderinae of the family Formicidae. The ants in this genus are small and black in colour; workers measure 1.75 to 3 millimetres (0.07 to 0.12 in) in length, the males at around 1.6 millimetres (0.06 in) are smaller, and the queens are the largest, reaching 4 millimetres (0.16 in). There are seven described species and three described subspecies that mostly...
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Copper-bellied Ant
speciesOchetellus glaber
Ochetellus punctatissimus
speciesOchetellus punctatissimus
Ochetellus flavipes
speciesOchetellus flavipes
Ochetellus sororis
speciesOchetellus sororis
Ochetellus democles
speciesOchetellus democles
Ochetellus epinotalis
speciesOchetellus epinotalis
Ochetellus vinsoni
speciesOchetellus vinsoni
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 367057.