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Yellow-headed Honeypot Ant
Arthropods

Yellow-headed Honeypot Ant

Myrmecocystus flaviceps

Authorship: Wheeler

Sources

[Hollebeke, 1991]

Taxonomic Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda (Arthropods)
ClassInsecta (Insects)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (Bees Ants Wasps and Sawflies)
FamilyFORMICIDAE (Ant Family)
GenusMyrmecocystus
Speciesflaviceps

Recent Observations

Sourced from iNaturalist

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