Dolopomyrmex

Dolopomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Dolopomyrmex pilatus.[1]

Dolopomyrmex
Dolopomyrmex pilatus worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Myrmicinae
Tribe:
Solenopsidini
Genus:
Dolopomyrmex

Cover & Deyrup, 2007
Species:
D. pilatus
Binomial name
Dolopomyrmex pilatus
Cover & Deyrup, 2007

Distribution and habitat

The genus is known from the western and the southwestern United States, where the ants live in arid desert habitats, likely with an almost exclusively subterranean life style.[2]

Etymology

The genus name is derived from ancient Greek dolops, dolopos ("lurker in ambush") + Greek myrmex, myrmekos ("ant"); the specific name of the type species (D. pilatus) is derived from the pilum (a javelin commonly used by the Roman army), making Dolopomyrmex pilatus the "spear-bearing ambush ant".[2]

References
  1. "Genus: Dolopomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. Cover, S. P; Deyrup, M. (2007). "A new ant genus from the southwestern United States". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 80: 89–99.


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