Oecophylla longinoda

Oecophylla longinoda
Oecophylla longinoda on the uluguru Mountains in Morogoro Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Oecophylla
Species: O. longinoda
Binomial name
Oecophylla longinoda
Latreille, 1802[1]
Map showing range of Oecophylla (O.longinoda has now spread to the coast in Kwa-Zulu Natal)
Oecophylla range map. Oecophylla longinoda in blue, Oecophylla smaragdina in red.[1]
nest in Kwa-Zulu Natal
South Africa

Oecophylla longinoda (common name weaver ant) is a species of arboreal ant found in the forested regions of tropical Africa. They are one of only two extant species of the genus Oecophylla, the other being O. smaragdina. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae.

References

  1. 1 2 Dlussky, Gennady M.; Torsten Wappler; Sonja Wedmann (2008). "New middle Eocene formicid species from Germany and the evolution of weaver ants" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 53 (4): 615–626. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0406.


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