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North American Honeypot Ants
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North American Honeypot Ants

Myrmecocystus

Myrmecocystus is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It is one of five genera that includes honeypot ants. Worker ants keep and tend plerergates, which are other ants that store large quantities of nutritious fluid in their abdomens to feed the colony during famine times..

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Endiodioctes

subgenusEndiodioctes

Myrmecocystus

subgenusMyrmecocystus

Eremnocystus

subgenusEremnocystus

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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 69331.