Myrmica faniensis is a species of ant in family Formicidae. It is endemic to Belgium.

Myrmecoclytus vadoni

Poinar & Yanoviak, 2008

English, German

Myrmel (Myrmæl Bruk) is one of the largest and oldest farms the sub-parish of Sande in Gaular, Sogn og Fjordane. Myrmel lies on a sunny hill with moraine soil, which is excellent to cultivate. On the other hand, it was full of big stones, thus it was sometimes difficult during the haying. The name Myrmel derives from mjali og meli, which is a reference to porous soil. The farm was first recorded in 1350, but it was probably already inhabited much earlier.

Myrmica

Myrmica cadusa is a species of ant. Myrmica cadusa differs from similar ants in the genus Myrmica by the external shape of the antennal socket, which is jar shaped. They forage on the ground surface. Myrmica are unique from other types of ants in many ways. These are their oval head, rounded clypeus, prominent frontal lobes and in most species, a strongly developed propodeal spine with two large nodes.

The Myrmecoleon or Ant-lion is a fantastical animal from classical times, possibly by error from the Septuagint version of the book of Job, reappearing in the Greek Christian Physiologus of the 3rd or 4th century A.D.It is found in Medieval bestiaries such as the Hortus Sanitatis of Jacob Meydenbach. also referenced in some sources as a Formicaleon (Antlion), Formicaleun or Mirmicioleon.

Myrmica obscurata
Animalia

Myrmica ruginodis is a species of ant that lives in northern parts of Europe and Asia. It is very similar to M. rubra, but has a more northerly and higher-altitude distribution. Overwintering larvae may become either workers or queen ants, with up to 20 queens living in a colony of up to 2,500 individuals. Two subspecies are recognised, differing in the relative size of the queen.

Wesmael, 1838

Cephalotes atratus ant infected with Myrmeconema neotropicum showing swollen red abdomen

Banks, 1911

Myrmica elmesi is a species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The species, known from north-west Himalaya (India, Jammu and Kashmir), belongs to pachei group, and is significantly different from all other described species of this group.

Emery, 1890

Insecta

*Myrmedoma (Becc.)

Myrmica bibikoffi is a species of ant that can be found in Germany, and Switzerland.

Myrmecophobia is the inexplicable fear of ants. It is a type of specific phobia. It is common for those who suffer from myrmecophobia to also have a wider fear of insects in general. Such a condition is known as entomophobia. This fear can manifest itself in several ways, such as a fear of ants contaminating a person's food supply, or fear of a home invasion by large numbers of ants.The term myrmecophobia comes from the Greek μύρμηξ, myrmex, meaning "ant" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear".

Myrmica tschekanovskii is a species of ant, one of around 200 known species of the genus Myrmica which is widespread throughout the temperate regions of the Holarctic. It was first described in 1994 by Dr Alexander Radchenko, of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology in Ukraine.

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecophiles

Myrmecosicyos

M. pictifrons

Myrmica gallienii

Species

M. rubra

Myrmelachista

Myrmedoniina

Arthropoda

M. polistes

Gao and Norell, 2000

Myrmecological News (previous name: Myrmecologische Nachrichten) is an independent, international, non-profit, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to all aspects of ant research. In a mix of research and review articles, all fields of myrmecology are covered.It was relaunched in 2004.

Myrmecophila humboldtii

Myrmica rubra, also known as the European fire ant or common red ant, is a species of ant of the genus Myrmica, found all over Europe and in some parts of North America and Asia. They are mainly red in colour, with slightly darker pigmentation on the head. The ants live under stones, fallen trees, and in soil.

Myrmecodaptria (meaning "ant eater" in Greek) is an extinct genus of scleroglossan lizard from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation in Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. The type and only species, Myrmecodaptria microphagosa (microphagosa meaning "eating little" in Greek), was named in 2000 by paleontologists Gao Keqin and Mark Norell. Myrmecodaptria is known from a single holotype skull and lower jaws. It is distinguished from all other lizards by its extremely elongated skull.

Myrmecophantes is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Myrmecodia

Myrmica myrmicoxena

Myrmecodaptria

Myrmecocichla tholloni

M. enganensis

Myrmekiaphila is a genus of trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae. All described species are endemic to the southeastern United States. The genus was transferred from the Ctenizidae by Raven in 1985. M. flavipes was transferred from genus Aptostichus in 2007.

* Globiceps gracilis (R. Sahlberg, 1848)

Myrmica sabuleti

Breuning, 1957

Myrmecophyte (mər′mek•ə‚fīt; literally "ant-plant") is a plant that lives in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. There are over 100 different genera of myrmecophytes. These plants possess structural adaptations that provide ants with food and/or shelter. These specialized structures include domatia, food bodies, and extrafloral nectaries. In exchange for food and shelter, ants aid the myrmecophyte in pollination, seed dispersal, gathering of essential nutrients, and/or defense. Specifically, domatia adapted to ants may be called myrmecodomatia.

See text

Myrmica myrmicoxena is a species of ant that can be found in France and Spain.

Myrmica lemasnei

Myrmecology

Bond & Platnick, 2007

Myrmica rubra

*Myrmecozela extinctella (Caradja, 1920)
Myrmecozela ochraceella is a moth of the Tineidae family. It is found in Great Britain, Fennoscandia, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain.The wingspan is 15–18 mm.The larvae feed on detritus in ant nests.

Myrmecocystus mexicanus is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypot ant", due to curious behavior where some of the workers will swell with liquid food until they become immobile and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers, acting as living food storage for the colony. Honey ants are found in North America, Australia, and Africa. Ant species belonging to the Myrmecocystus genus reside in North America. M.

worker

Myrmecodia is a genus of epiphytic myrmecophytes (ant plants) native to Southeast Asia and large islands extending south to Queensland in Australia. Myrmecodia plants grow in tree branches and on trunks. In nature, Myrmecodia tubers often grow hanging downward on bare branches without significant amounts of substrate, and thus depend upon symbiosis for most nutriment. The plants store food and water in a greyish brown caudex that swells and grows spines over time.

Myrmecopsis hyalozona

*Bletia humboldtii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers)

Myrmecodaptria (meaning "ant eater" in Greek) is an extinct genus of scleroglossan lizard from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation in Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. The type and only species, Myrmecodaptria microphagosa (microphagosa meaning "eating little" in Greek), was named in 2000 by paleontologists Gao Keqin and Mark Norell. Myrmecodaptria is known from a single holotype skull and lower jaws. It is distinguished from all other lizards by its extremely elongated skull. The eyes are placed close to the snout, which is short and rounded. The top of the skull is covered in bony knobs called osteoderms. The parietal bone at the back of the skull is elongated and about as long as the frontal bones, which are the usually the longest bones along the top of the skull in lizards. The squamosal bone at the back of the skull reaches forward to connect with the jugal bone behind the eye, forming a thin arch between the temporal fenestrae. Myrmecodaptria also has fewer and more widely spaced teeth in its jaws than do most other lizards.When Myrmecodaptria was first described in 2000 it was thought to be a member of Gekkota, the group that includes living geckos and pygopodids (legless lizards). Characteristics that Myrmecodaptria shares in common with gekkotans include fused frontal bones that form a tube within the skull and the absence of a postorbital bone. However, Myrmecodaptria has many features that are not found in gekkotans, such as the presence of a small hole at the top of the skull called the parietal foramen, a thick jugal bone forming a complete postorbital bar behind the eye socket, and a complete upper temporal arch closing off a pair of holes at the top of the skull called the supratemporal fenestrae. The first study to include Myrmecodaptria in a phylogenetic analysis was published in 2006, and it did not find support for Myrmecodaptria being a gekkotan. Instead, Myrmecodaptria was found to be more closely related to a group of lizards called Autarchoglossa, a large clade or evolutionary grouping that includes skinks, anguimorphs, and snakes. The supposedly gekkotan features seen in Myrmecodaptria may instead be characteristic of the earliest members of Scleroglossa, which split into gekkotans and autarchoglossans. Myrmecodaptria is part of the scleroglossan lineage leading to autarchoglossans, making it a "stem" autarchoglossan. Myrmecodaptria was again included in a phylogenetic analysis authored by Jack Conrad in 2008, which placed it in an extinct group called Bainguidae. Bainguidae was positioned at the stem of Autarchoglossa in the analysis (within a larger clade called Evansauria), but this relationship had only weak support. The best known member of Banguidae, Bainguis, may instead be a closer relative of living anguids or lacertoids, in which case Bainguidae would not be a valid grouping.A large phylogenetic analysis published in 2012, which resulted a very different hypothesis for the evolutionary relationships of lizards than those of previous analyses, found Myrmecodaptria to be closely related to the genus Carusia, which is also from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. In Conrad's 2008 analysis, Carusia was deeply nested within Autarchoglossa as a close relative of the living genus Xenosaurus. The 2012 analysis instead found that Myrmecodaptria and Carusia were close relatives of the family Scincidae, which includes modern skinks. Both genera were placed in a family called Carusiidae. While a close relationship to scincids was only weakly supported, the grouping of Myrmecodaptria and Carusia as sister taxa was strongly supported by nine shared characteristics, including fused frontals (which, according to the analysis, evolved independently in gekkotans and Carusiidae).

Myrmecology (/mɜːrmᵻˈkɒlədʒi/; from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the scientific study of ants. Some early myrmecologists considered ant society as the ideal form of society and sought to find solutions to human problems by studying them. Ants continue to be a model of choice for the study of questions on the evolution of social systems because of their complex and varied forms of eusociality.

Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi

Myrmeleontinae

Myrmica rubra var. khamensis

M. lemasnei

Myrmica salina is a species of ant belonging to the genus Myrmica. They have a wide distribution in Europe and Siberia, as well as being abundant to several former republics of the Soviet Union, where their preferred habitats are relatively wet halophyte biotopes. Ruzsky first described the first specimen of the species in 1905.

Myrmica cadusa

Myrmica rubra var. champlaini

Myrmecoxenus gordiagini

Myrmecoclytus

Myrmecophilous

Myrmecoclytus natalensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Hunt and Breuning in 1957.

Myrmecoclytus mayottei

Myrmica laurae is a species of ant. It does not have a common name. The ant is found in Italy. It is considered vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Atkinson, 1886

Myrmeleon

Myrmeleontinae is a subfamily of Myrmeleontidae, the antlions.

List of Cyrtaucheniidae species#Myrmekiaphila

Myrmica kotokui

at least once a year

incertae sedis

Myrmecotypus is a spider genus that mimics ants. Species mainly occur Panama to Mexico, with one species found in the United States, and one in Argentina, suggesting distribution may be much wider than currently appreciated. M. rettenmeyeri has a strange longitudinal band of black hairs extending along the midline of the cephalothorax. This seems to enhance the resemblance to the ant Camponotus sericeiventris with which it shares the same habitat.

Arzanlou, W.Gams & Crous

Myrmecoclytus singularis

Myrmeleontidae

Myrmecolacidae is an insect family of the order Strepsiptera. There are four genera and about 98 species in this family. Like all strepsipterans, they have a parasitic mode of development with males parasitizing ants while the females develop inside Orthoptera. The sexes differ greatly in morphology making it very difficult to match females to the better catalogued museum specimens of males.

M. laurae

Myrmica brevinodis

Myrmecoris gracilis

Myrmecoclytus affinis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1975.

Myrmica lampra

Myrmecoclytus natalensis

Myrmica ruginodis

Myrmecocystus sp.

Myrmetaerus

iucn3.1

Myrmecridium is a genus of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes. Circumscribed in 2007, it is distinguished from similar fungi by having entirely hyaline (translucent) vegetative hyphae, and widely scattered, pimple-shaped denticles (toothlike projections) on the long hyaline rachis. The generic name derives from a combination of the Ancient Greek wordmyrmekia, meaning "wart", and the suffix -ridium from Chloridium.

Myrmecocystus

Myrmel

Myrmexocentroides

Myrmica afghanica

M. kotokui

Myrmica rubra var. macrogyna

Kim Park & Kim, 1997

Gerstaecker, 1885

Myrmephytum is a genus of myrmecophytic flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is distributed from central Malesia to New Guinea.It is one of five ant-plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, the others being Anthorrhiza, Hydnophytum, Myrmecodia, and Squamellaria.

M. salina worker specimen

Myrmica pharaonis

Myrmeparmena sudrei is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Myrmeparmena. It was described by Vives in 2012.

Myrmica laevinodis var. bruesi

Myrmica gallienii is an ant species distributed from Central Europe to West Siberia. Also found in Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. It lives in wet grasslands and swamps, often in saline land. It builds shallow nests with a soil mound in moist habitats but deep nests in sandy areas. Colonies are relatively large with thousands of individuals.

Myrmecomantis atra

Myrmeleon torridum

Myrmecophilus

André, 1896

*Sphecopsis hyalozona (Felder, 1874)

M. salina

Myrmica elmesi

Myrmecophaga tridactyla

Myrmica lampra is a species of ant in the genus Myrmica. It is found in Quebec as was named in 1968 by Andre Francoeur. The species is evidently inquiline (it lives in the nest of other Myrmica species).

Myrmecol. News

*Schomburgkia humboldtii var. breviscapa (H.G.Jones)

Myrmica sabuleti is a species of ant in the genus Myrmica. The species is indigenous to Europe and most colonies are polygynous. The Phengaris arion caterpillars parasitically prey on the species as it hatchess on thyme buds and then tricks the ants into believing it is one of their own larvae, ants then carry it to their nest where it feeds on the ant grubs for 10 months before pupating and emerging as a butterfly.

M. mexicanus

Myrmecocichla semirufa

Myrmecophila humboldtii is a species of orchid. The species is named after Alexander von Humboldt. Its natural distribution is from Venezuela and the ABC islands (Bonaire and Curaçao; apparently extinct in Aruba).

Myrmeleon pictifrons

Myrmecology (/mɜːrmᵻˈkɒlədʒi/; from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the scientific study of ants. Some early myrmecologists considered ant society as the ideal form of society and sought to find solutions to human problems by studying them. Ants continue to be a model of choice for the study of questions on the evolution of social systems because of their complex and varied forms of eusociality. Their diversity and prominence in ecosystems also has made them important components in the study of biodiversity and conservation. Recently, ant colonies are also studied and modeled for their relevance in machine learning, complex interactive networks, stochasticity of encounter and interaction networks, parallel computing, and other computing fields.

Myrmecomyia formicaria is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Myrmecomyia of the family Ulidiidae.

Myrmecocystus mexicanus

M. sabuleti

Myrmecophantes

Myrmēkion (Greek: Μυρμήκιον, Russian: Мирмекий) was an ancient Greek colony in the Crimea, situated on the shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus, 4 kilometres to the north of Panticapaeum, the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom. It was founded in the mid-6th century BC as an independent polis, which soon became one of the richest in the region. In the 5th century BC, the town specialized in winemaking and minted its own coinage. It was surrounded by towered walls, measuring some 2.5 metres thick. Myrmekion fell into the hands of the Bosporan kings in the 4th century BC and gradually dwindled into insignificance in the shadow of their capital, Panticapaeum. Regular excavations began in 1934 undertaken by an expedition led by V.F. Gaidukevich. The site was excavated by Polish archaeologists, led by Kazimierz Michałowski, in the 1950s. Between 1982 and 1994 an expedition led by Yu.A. Vinogradov was working at the site. In 1999 an archaeological expedition of the State Hermitage Museum began work at the site.

Myrmeleontoidea is a lacewing superfamily in the suborder Myrmeleontiformia.

Fairmaire, 1895

Myrmecoclytus affinis

Myrmecridium

Myrmecopsis semihyalina

Myrmeleontini

Motschoulsky, 1863

(Myrmecomantis atra)

beccarii

Myrmecophilus or ant crickets, is a genus of orthopteran insects in the family Myrmecophilidae. This genus contains the majority of symbiotic 'ant-loving' species in this small, obscure family.

Myrmekitic texture

#Species

Cattleya

Myrmecophilidae

Myrmecocystus testaceus is a species of ant. Found throughout southern United States, this species of ant is usually nocturnal, and nests in sand.They can spray formic acid out of their gaster to melt skin tissue. instead of stinging and swarming, they normally stretch out the prey by the legs until it splits or does from bites and formic acid.

Myrmecophila brysiana is an orchid in the Myrmecophila genus. A common name for the species is Brys's schomburgkia. It was first described by Lemaire in 1851.It is found growing along rivers and seashores in Central America. The flowers show significant variation and may indicate this is more than one species.

Myrmecopsis strigosa

* Gepini
* Myrmeleontini
* Nemoleontini
* Porrerini

Finzi, 1926

Myrmeleontiformia is a lacewing suborder in the order Neuroptera. The phylogeny of the Neuroptera has been explored using mitochondrial DNA sequences, and while issues remain for the group as a whole (the "Hemerobiiformia" being paraphyletic), the Myrmeleontiformia is generally agreed to be monophyletic, giving the following cladogram:

Myrmecorhynchus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is endemic to Australia, where its species are found in forested areas. They nest in soil or on trees or shrubs.

*Schomburgkia brysiana Lem., Jard. Fleur. 1: 34 .
*Schomburgkia campecheana [Lem] Kraenzlin 1903

Myrmica laevinodis is a species of ant that closely resembles M. kotokui, and is at times difficult to distinguish, due to variation in morphology and color in M. kotokui. However, the unraised rugae on the posterodorsal portion of the mesonotum are usually characteristic, though some M. kotokui workers have this character. It is best in the field to examine the body coloration of a number of workers from each colony. Also, M.

Myrmecological News

Collingwood, 1976

Myrmecozela extinctella

left

Roger, 1863

Myrmecoris gracilis is a species of flightless Hemipteran bug from the family Miridae. The genus Mymecoris is monotypic with one Palaearctic species. It differs in its outward appearance and way of life from other "grass bugs" in the Stenodemini, being predatory and an effective ant mimic.

Myrmia micrura

Myrmica aloba is a species of ant that can be found in France, Portugal, and Spain.

Myrmekiaphila

M. neotropicum

Myrmelachista kraatzii

M. ochraceella

* Myrmeleontoidea
* Nemopteroidea
* incertae sedis

Myrmeleon libelluloides

Myrmecridium schulzeri

See text.

M. mexicanus worker

Myrmecophytes

*Dulcana (Zagulajev, 1975)
*Flavida (Zagulajev, 1975)
*Proctolopha (Rebel, 1915)
*Promasia (Chretien, 1905)
*Psephologa (Meyrick, 1921)

Myrmecoleon

Myrmica colax is a species of ant, originally described by Cole as Paramyrmica colax. Until now, it is only known from its type locality in the Davis Mountains, Texas, USA. He found M. colax in a M. striolagaster colony and considers the two species quite similar in morphology. This suggests M. colax might be an inquiline.

Myrmecophila brysiana

Myrmecodia platytyrea

Myrmeleontoidea

Myrmekes

Eremnocystus (Snelling, 1976)

Myrmelachista schumanni

Myrmecodia beccarii

Bharti & Sharma, 2011

Myrmecotypus

Myrmeconema neotropicum

Bernard, 1967

Myrmecozela ochraceella

Myrmica pilinodis is a species of ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is found in Sri Lanka.

Decamera (Roger, 1863)

Myrmeleontiformia

M. formicaria

Myrmica ruginodis casent0008642 dorsal 1.jpg

Myrmica lobicornis is an ant species distributed through the planes of North Europe and the mountains of Central and Southern Europe. It is also found in the forest zone of East Europe, the Caucasus, West Siberia, North-East Kazakhstan, East Siberia, and Mongolia stretching until Transbaikalia in the East. It inhabits coniferous or mixed woodlands, occasionally also meadows. It mostly nests in the ground, forms monogynous colonies containing a few hundred workers.

Myrmica rubra var. mutata

M. ruginodis worker

Myrmecopsis laticincta

Emery, 1893

Myrmecomantis atra, common name ant mantis, is a species of praying mantis that relies upon ant mimicry for protection even as an adult.

Myrmica microrubra is a species of ant that can be found in Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Ukraine, and the Netherlands.

M. pilinodis

Myrmecopsis strigosa is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Druce in 1884. It is found in Mexico and Guatemala.The wingspan is about 25 mm.

Myrmecorhynchus

Forel, 1895

M. allodapus

Myrmexocentroides enganensis

Berthold, 1827

Wheeler, 1908

Myrmeparmena sudrei

Myrmecopsis eumenides

Myrmica lonae is a species of ants distributed across South, Central and North Europe, East Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, West Siberian Plain and Northern Kazakhstan. It inhabits humid meadows both in the plains and in the mountains. It nests in the ground, under stones or in moss. It forms polygynous colonies with up to 1000 workers or more.

Myrmelachista nodigera worker

Myrmica lobicornis

Myrmica laevinodis

Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics

Myrmecophaga tetradactyla

IUCN2.3

Myrmica aloba

M. lobicornis

Myrmica salina

Birgit Schlick-Steiner, Florian Steiner, Herbert Zettel

Myrmecopsis

*Schomburgkia humboldtii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f.)

Tamandua

Myrmeparmena

Myrmecozela

Myrmephytum

Myrmecomorphy

Myrmecocystus testaceus

Myrmecomyia

Breuning, 1970

M. lampra

Myrmecocichla nigra

Francoeur, 1968

Nylander, 1846

Myrmecocystus mimicus worker

Myrmecodia beccarii with Dischidia nummularia

Myrmecophilia

* Ascalaphidae
* Myrmeleontidae
* Nymphidae

Myrmecodia beccarii, ant-house plant, is an epiphytic plant on Melaleuca trees and others with spongy bark in the wetlands and mangroves of tropical north Queensland, Australia from Cooktown to Mission Beach. The prickly, swollen stems develop natural hollows which are invaded by the golden ant (Iridomyrmex cordatus) in a symbiotic arrangement. The ants patrol the plant, removing leaf-eaters, while their excreta is absorbed by the plant for nutrition.The flowers are white and tubular, to 10 mm, and the fruit is white/translucent containing a single seed. These seeds are transported to other trees by the mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum).The Apollo jewel butterfly (Hypochrysops apollo apollo) lays its eggs on the plant, and because they smell like ant's eggs, the ants carry the eggs inside the plant, where they develop to the butterfly stage. Hypochrysops is a genus of "blues", butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which is notorious for its myrmecophily. Accordingly, it is likely that the larvae that hatch from the eggs feed either on food begged from the ants, or on ant larvae, or possibly both. In either event, the butterfly finally emerges and flies off.

M. mayottei

Vives, 2012

Myrmecophilus acervorum

Myrmica afghanica is a species of ant from Afghanistan.

M. faniensis

Myrmelachista is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is found exclusively in the Neotropical region. Little is known regarding their biology.

Myrmica colax

M. americanus

Myrmecodendron hindsii

Myrmecophilinae

Radchenko, 1994

Formica pilinodis

Myrmedoma

Myrmica karavajevi is a workerless, socially parasitic ant species: it is widely distributed across Europe (Ukraine, European Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, England, Italy, France and Spain). It lives in nests of other species (Myrmica scabrinodis and close relatives) that inhabit warm and humid habitats.

Myrmecophilus americanus is an ant cricket, a wingless cricket that is an obligate parasite of ants and lives in their nests.It is found living in the nest of the longhorn crazy ant (Paratrechina longicornis) and is kleptoparasitic on it, feeding on food scraps brought back by the workers and encouraging them to regurgitate food. It may be assisted in this symbiosis by mimicry as it resembles the gaster of the ant queen in both size and shape.

Myrmecoris

Families

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..

Sloane, 1923

M. obscurata

Myrmecoides

Myrmecopsis polistes is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Hübner in 1818. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil (Amazons, Ega, Para).

Meinert, 1861

Myrmica tschekanovskii

Myrmeocorus allodapus

Myrmecologists

Myrmica bibikoffi

Myrmica pilinodis

M. aloba

Myrmexocentroides enganensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Myrmexocentroides. It was described by Breuning in 1970.

Myrmecoclytus pauliani

Myrmica faniensis

Myrmecodemus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:Myrmecodemus formicoides Sloane, 1910Myrmecodemus globulicollis (Macleay, 1888)Myrmecodemus lucai Baehr, 2005Myrmecodemus pilosellus Baehr, 2005Myrmecodemus riverinae (Sloane, 1890)

M. rubra worker

M. lonae

G.C.Kenn., Orchid Digest 43: 210

M. testaceus

Myrmecoclytus raffrayi

Saussure, 1877

Myrmecopsis polistes

M. rettenmeyeri

Myrmica laevinodis is a species of ant that closely resembles M. kotokui, and is at times difficult to distinguish, due to variation in morphology and color in M. kotokui. However, the unraised rugae on the posterodorsal portion of the mesonotum are usually characteristic, though some M. kotokui workers have this character. It is best in the field to examine the body coloration of a number of workers from each colony. Also, M. rubra has fewer strong rugae, and is more smooth on the lower half of the mesonotal pleura than M. kotokui; its propodeal spines are shorter, and the rugae on the anterior basal portion of the 1st gastral tergite are relatively weak and fewer in number. Although Japanese specimens differ morphologically from European M. rubra material, and resemble M. kotokui in petiolar morphology, the name Myrmica rubra is applied to them for the present. This species nests in the soil of grassland on seashores and lowlands (Onoyama, 1989). Rare in Japan.Myrmica laevinodis have been known to feed on honeydew produced by aphids, in return for protecting them from parasites.

*Tinea ochraceella (Tengström, 1848)
*Tinea perochraceella (Doubleday, 1859)
*Myrmecozela extinctella (Caradja, 1920)

M. tschekanovskii

M. brysiana

Myrmica scabrinodis

Breuning, 1975

Myrmica karavajevi

Myrmecolacidae

Myrmecotypus is a spider genus that mimics ants. Species mainly occur Panama to Mexico, with one species found in the United States, and one in Argentina, suggesting distribution may be much wider than currently appreciated. M. rettenmeyeri has a strange longitudinal band of black hairs extending along the midline of the cephalothorax. This seems to enhance the resemblance to the ant Camponotus sericeiventris with which it shares the same habitat. The crests of black hairs correspond to the solid longitudinal keel-like dorsal extensions of the posterior sections of the ant's thorax.M. rettenmeyeri is named after entomologist Carl W. Rettenmeyer, who researched ants.

Ant mantis

Myrmecodaptria microphagosa

Myrmecorhynchus emeryi

Myrmecopsis hyalozona is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Felder in 1874. It is found in Colombia.

Comparison of Myrmica ruginodis and M. rubra

Myrmecological

Myrmecophilus americanus is an ant cricket, a wingless cricket that is an obligate parasite of ants and lives in their nests.It is found living in the nest of the longhorn crazy ant (Paratrechina longicornis) and is kleptoparasitic on it, feeding on food scraps brought back by the workers and encouraging them to regurgitate food. It may be assisted in this symbiosis by mimicry as it resembles the gaster of the ant queen in both size and shape. Although it seems to be largely host specific, it has on at least one occasion been found in the nest of another species of ant, and other members of the genus Myrmecophilus have multiple host species.

Myrmica scabrinodis is a Euro-Siberian species of ant. It lives in moderately humid habitats, tolerates soil moisture but also needs direct sunshine. It often inhabits peat bogs. It builds nests in the ground, in grass or moss tussocks, even under stones or in rotten wood. Its colonies are monogynous or have only a few queens and may contain about 2500 workers. This ant species is the main host of the entomopathogenic fungus Rickia wasmannii. Phengaris caterpillars are primary threats of M.

Neaphomus (Menozzi, 1935)

Myrmecoclytus singularis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1957.

Myrmecophaga

Subspecies

Myrmecotroph

M. singularis

*Schomburgkia campecheana[Lem]Kraenzlin 1903

Tribes

Myrmecophilus americanus

The Myrmecophagidae are a family of anteaters, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek words for 'ant' and 'eat' (myrmeco- and phagos). Two genera and three species are in the family, consisting of the giant anteater, and the tamanduas. The fossil Eurotamandua from the Messel Pit in Germany may be an early anteater, but its status is currently debated.

Myrmecodemus

Myrmecophyte (mər′mek•ə‚fīt; literally "ant-plant") is a plant that lives in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. There are over 100 different genera of myrmecophytes. These plants possess structural adaptations that provide ants with food and/or shelter. These specialized structures include domatia, food bodies, and extrafloral nectaries. In exchange for food and shelter, ants aid the myrmecophyte in pollination, seed dispersal, gathering of essential nutrients, and/or defense.

M. myrmicoxena

Myrmecodia beccarii, ant-house plant, is an epiphytic plant on Melaleuca trees and others with spongy bark in the wetlands and mangroves of tropical north Queensland, Australia from Cooktown to Mission Beach. The prickly, swollen stems develop natural hollows which are invaded by the golden ant (Iridomyrmex cordatus) in a symbiotic arrangement.

Myrmekiaphila tigris

Myrmecotrophy is the ability of plants to obtain nutrients from ants, a form of mutualism. Due to this behaviour the invasion of vegetation into harsh environments is promoted. The dead remains of insects thrown out by the ants are absorbed by the lenticular warts in myrmecophytes like Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia. Myrmecodia uses its lenticular warts to suck nutrients from the insects thrown out by the ants. The ants in turn benefit with a secure location to form their colony. The pitcher plant Nepenthes bicalcarata obtains an estimated 42% of its total foliar nitrogen from ant waste.

Myrmēkion (Greek: Μυρμήκιον, Russian: Мирмекий) was an ancient Greek colony in the Crimea, situated on the shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus, 4 kilometres to the north of Panticapaeum, the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom. It was founded in the mid-6th century BC as an independent polis, which soon became one of the richest in the region. In the 5th century BC, the town specialized in winemaking and minted its own coinage. It was surrounded by towered walls, measuring some 2.5 metres thick.

Myrmecophile

M. natalensis

M. scabrinodis

Myrmecoclytus pauliani is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1957.

Myrmecodomatia

M. laevinodis

Superfamilies

Myrmica duisburgi

M. cadusa

Myrmecocystus mimicus is a North American species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus. The species is widely distributed, from Kansas south to Texas and Mexico, and west to California.

Ruzsky, 1905

Myrmecophagidae

Myrmecopsis is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family.

M. raffrayi

M. humboldtii

Myrmecomorph

M. elmesi worker from India

Myrmeleontini is an antlion tribe in the subfamily Myrmeleontinae.

Myrmecodomatium

*Myrmica scabrinodis ahngeri Karavaiev, 1926
*Myrmica georgica Seifert, 1987
*Myrmica tobiasi Radchenko & Elmes, 2004

Myrmekes is a mythical creature in Greek mythology. Their name is Greek for "ants."

Myrmecocystus mexicanus is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypot ant", due to curious behavior where some of the workers will swell with liquid food until they become immobile and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers, acting as living food storage for the colony. Honey ants are found in North America, Australia, and Africa. Ant species belonging to the Myrmecocystus genus reside in North America. M. mexicanus in particular is found in the southwestern United States and parts of Mexico.

M. ruginodis

M. mimicus

Myrmecotrophy

M. atra

Martins, 1975

Myrmecoclytus raffrayi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fairmaire in 1895.

'M. gracilis'

Myrmica rubra var. brevinodis

Myrmica scabrinodis is a Euro-Siberian species of ant. It lives in moderately humid habitats, tolerates soil moisture but also needs direct sunshine. It often inhabits peat bogs. It builds nests in the ground, in grass or moss tussocks, even under stones or in rotten wood. Its colonies are monogynous or have only a few queens and may contain about 2500 workers. This ant species is the main host of the entomopathogenic fungus Rickia wasmannii. Phengaris caterpillars are primary threats of M. scabrinodis with specific species such as Phengaris arion developing a predatory relationship.

Myrmica rubra var. neolaevinodis

From Bengaluru

Palpares libelluloides

Zeller, 1852

Myrmia

Forel, 1909

Boven, 1970

Myrmecodia is a genus of epiphytic myrmecophytes (ant plants) native to Southeast Asia and large islands extending south to Queensland in Australia. Myrmecodia plants grow in tree branches and on trunks. In nature, Myrmecodia tubers often grow hanging downward on bare branches without significant amounts of substrate, and thus depend upon symbiosis for most nutriment. The plants store food and water in a greyish brown caudex that swells and grows spines over time. The thick, unbranched stems are covered in clypeoli and alveoli which also grow spines and are densely filled with dry bracts.From the alveoli emerge small white flowers which can self-pollinate to yield a bright orange, fleshy berry filled with up to six small seeds. Seed dispersal is by birds, that often deposit droppings on the branches and trunks of trees they land on. In this they resemble various parasitic plants such as the mistletoes in families such as Loranthaceae, Santalaceae, and Misodendraceae, but Myrmecodia species are unrelated to the true parasites, being in the coffee- and gardenia family Rubiaceae. Nor are they known to be significantly parasitic themselves, in spite of being epiphytes; their well-developed leaves, plus their adaptations to mutualism with ants, suggest that they use the plants on which they grow mainly for support and to escape from deep shade on the forest floor.They form a symbiotic relationship with ants and fungi; Philidris cordata (formally Iridomyrmex cordatus) is believed to be the most common ant found occupying Myrmecodia species. Ant plants provide habitats for ant colonies high up into the forest canopy, protecting them from the elements and also predators because of the spines. Hollow, smooth-walled tunnels form within the caudex with external entrance holes, providing an above-ground home for ant colonies. Ants likewise provide defense for the plant and prevent tissue damage. Ant colonies also provide nutrients to the plants by leaving wastes within the tunnels inside the caudex. Special glands lining the tunnels then absorb nutriment for the plant. This symbiosis allows the plants to effectively gather nutrients (via the ants) from a much larger area than the roots ever could cover. It is found that ants are not required for Myrmecodia to form the caudex.Native people in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea have been using it for generations to treat many ailments.Myrmecodia is derived from Greek myrmekodes meaning "ant-like" or "full of ants". It is one of five ant-plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, the others being Anthorrhiza, Hydnophytum, Myrmephytum, and Squamellaria.

Hincksidris (Donisthorpe, 1944)

Myrmecophil

Myrmecomorphic

*Pseudosphex polistes (Hübner, 1818)
*Myrmecopsis eumenides (Newman, 1850)

Myrmica kotokui (Japanese: shiwa-kushike-ari) is a species of ant of the genus Myrmica.This species closely resembles the European Myrmica ruginodis and is perhaps not a separate distinctive species. Onoyama (1989) suggested that it might best be treated as a subspecies of M. ruginodis.

M. bibikoffi

Myrmica laurae

Genera

Caenocholax fenyesi

Myrmica obscurata is a species of ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is found in Sri Lanka.

Myrmecopsis opaca

Myrmecomyia formicaria

M. elmesi

Myrmeleonidae

Myrmeocorus allodapus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Myrmeocorus.

M. microrubra

Myrmecomantis

Myrmecomorphous

Myrmica rubra, also known as the European fire ant or common red ant, is a species of ant of the genus Myrmica, found all over Europe and in some parts of North America and Asia. They are mainly red in colour, with slightly darker pigmentation on the head. The ants live under stones, fallen trees, and in soil. They are aggressive ants, often attacking rather than running away, and are equipped with a sting, though lack the ability to spray formic acid like the genus Formica.This is one of the most common and widespread Myrmica species of the Palaearctic. Occurs in the region stretching from Portugal to East Siberia (till Transbaikalia), and from northern Greece to the forest-tundra natural zone in the North. It is also currently invading Japan and North America where they are considered a nuisance as it is an invasive species.Their colonies have a polygyne form, and can have up to one hundred queens per nest. They are also polydomous, with many nest sites per individual colony. These queens will have gathered together after their nuptial flight and will have formed a nest and laid their eggs in it. The queens can live up to fifteen years. Nuptial flights take place normally in late July to mid-August in Europe. Hundreds of young queens and males take to the air to mate together. Afterwards, the males die and the queens shed their wings to make a new colony. No nuptial flights have been witnessed yet from this species where it is living in North America.They are very common in Europe and live in meadows and gardens. They live on a diet of honeydew excreted by aphids, and, being very aggressive like to eat many types of insect and other invertebrates. They will attack any creature that disturbs their nest, but are not as aggressive as the red imported fire ant. They also consume pollen, a phenomenon rarely documented in ants of the temperal zone.It is very similar to M. ruginodis, and the differences are very hard to tell. However, Myrmica rubra is the commoner of the two.The larvae of the butterfly Maculinea alcon (Alcon Blue) as well as Maculinea teleius use Myrmica rubra as their primary host.

Myrmecophyte

Rolfe, 1917

M. pauliani

Male predatory ant-mimic bug Myrmecoris gracilis

Myrmecoclytus vadoni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1957.

Myrmecophobia

Myrmekion

Myrmica lemasnei is a species of ant that can be found in France and Spain.

Myrmica microrubra

Latreille, 1802

Radchenko & Elmes, 2003

M. karavajevi

*Myrmica scabrinodis ahngeri Karavaiev, 1926

Myrmecozela eremica

Myrmecological news

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M. gallienii

*Myrmica tobiasi Radchenko & Elmes, 2004

Myrmecoclytus mayottei is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1957.

List of Corinnidae species#Myrmecotypus

*Amycles strigosa (Druce, 1884)
*Pseudosphex strigosa

Myrmecopsis laticinctus

Myrmecozela romeii

Myrmeocorus

M. schumanni

O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894

*Laelia humboldtii (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams)

M. hyalozona

* Myrmecoris rubricatus (Jakovlev, 1882)

Myrmica rubra var. Brevinodis

Myrmecotrophy is the ability of plants to obtain nutrients from ants, a form of mutualism. Due to this behaviour the invasion of vegetation into harsh environments is promoted. The dead remains of insects thrown out by the ants are absorbed by the lenticular warts in myrmecophytes like Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia. Myrmecodia uses its lenticular warts to suck nutrients from the insects thrown out by the ants. The ants in turn benefit with a secure location to form their colony.

Kutter, 1963

* Globiceps gracilis (R. Sahlberg, 1848)
* Miris lituanicus (Gorski, 1852)
* Myrmecoris rubricatus (Jakovlev, 1882)
* Myrmecoris fusca (Reuter, 1879)
* Myrmecoris rufuscula (Reuter, 1879)

*Schomburgkia brysiana Lem., Jard. Fleur. 1(Misc.): 34 (1851).

Myrmecologist

Myrmecocichla melaena

Myrmecophily in Staphylinidae

Bondroit, 1920

Myrmecophagous

Myrmecozela is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.

M. sudrei

Myrmica rubra casent0010684 dorsal 1.jpg

M. affinis

see text

Myrmecophila

Myrmecophily

*Epidendroides (Sol.)
*Mirmecodia (Gaudich., orth. var.)
*Myrmecoides (Elmer, orth. var.)

Myrmelachista schumanni, also known as the lemon ant, is a species of ant that is notable for the creation of Devil's garden. Using its own herbicide they kill off all the plants in an area except for the myrmecophytes, or ant-plants, in which they reside.

Myrmecozela tibulella

Saunders, 1872

Newman, 1850

Myrmekiaphila foliata

Myrmekite

Myrmex

M. strigosa

Myrmica lonae

Gray, 1825

Myrmeconema

Emery, 1907

Seifert, 1993

Myrmekite describes a vermicular, or wormy, intergrowth of quartz in plagioclase. The intergrowths are microscopic in scale, typically with maximum dimensions less than 1 millimeter. The plagioclase is sodium-rich, usually albite or oligoclase. These quartz-plagioclase intergrowths are associated with and commonly in contact with potassium feldspar. Myrmekite is formed under metasomatic conditions, usually in conjunction with tectonic deformations. It has to be clearly separated from micrographic and granophyric intergrowths, which are magmatic.

M. colax

*Sphecopsis (Felder, 1874)

Hook f.

M. emeryi worker from Australia

Myrmecophilic

Endiodioctes (Snelling, 1976)

Myrmica rubra var. microgyna

Myrmekite describes a vermicular, or wormy, intergrowth of quartz in plagioclase. The intergrowths are microscopic in scale, typically with maximum dimensions less than 1 millimeter. The plagioclase is sodium-rich, usually albite or oligoclase. These quartz-plagioclase intergrowths are associated with and commonly in contact with potassium feldspar. Myrmekite is formed under metasomatic conditions, usually in conjunction with tectonic deformations.

*Epidendrum humboldtii (Rchb.f.)
*Schomburgkia humboldtii ( Rchb.f.)
*Bletia humboldtii ( Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers)
*Laelia humboldtii ( L.O.Williams)
*Schomburgkia humboldtii var. breviscapa (H.G.Jones)

M. vadoni

Hunt &Breuning, 1957

Linnaeus, 1767

Myrmecopsis crabronis

M. afghanica

Myrmecozela lutipalpis

Myrmica rubra var. ruginodolaevinodis