MYRMICIINAE - HARVESTER ANTS, FIRE ANTS ETC
Because of the size of this subfamily it has been split onto two pages. Click here to see the first page covering the genera Acromyrmex to Mycocepurus.
Many thanks to Alex Wild at www.myrmecos.net for his work on Paraguayan ants and his permission to reproduce much of the information included in the ant sections of the FAUNA Paraguay page.
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Gallery 1 - Pheidole "Big-headed Ants" - The most species rich ant genus in the world reaching their greatest diversity in the tropics. Pronounced polymorphism with major workers being much larger than minor workers.(www.myrmecos.net)
FIGURE 1a - Pheidole cornicula major worker (right) and minor worker (left) - Departamento Concepción (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 1b - Pheidole fallax complex sp. nest - Departamento Ñeembucú (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 1c - Pheidole fimbriata major worker (left) and minor workers (right) - San Lorenzo, Departamento Central (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 1d - Pheidole fimbriata major worker - San Lorenzo, Departamento Central (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 1e - Pheidole fimbriata workers tending larva of Lycaenidae - San Lorenzo, Departamento Central (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 1f - Pheidole gertrudae with Cephalotes pusillus - Yby Yau, Departamento Concepción (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
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Gallery 2 - Pheidole "Big-headed Ants" - The most species rich ant genus in the world reaching their greatest diversity in the tropics. Pronounced polymorphism with major workers being much larger than minor workers.(www.myrmecos.net)
FIGURE 2a - Pheidole jelskii - San Lorenzo, Departamento Central (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 2b - Pheidole jelskii dragging carcass of cockroach vertically up the side of a plant pot - San Lorenzo, Departamento Central (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 2c - Pheidole jelskii winged queen - San Lorenzo, Departamento Central (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 2d - Pheidole radoszkowskii - Departamento Concepción (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 2e - Pheidole radoszkowskii complex sp. - Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
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Gallery 3 - Pogonomyrmex "Harvester Ants" - Large and conspicuous inhabitants of arid areas where they play an ecological role in seed dispersal and scavenging. Painful stings. (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3a - Pogonomyrmex (Ephebomyrmex) cunicularius - Departamento Boquerón (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3b - Pogonomyrmex (Ephebomyrmex) cunicularius at nest - Departamento Boquerón (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3c - Pogonomyrmex micans - Departamento Boquerón (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3d - Pogonomyrmex micans - Departamento Boquerón (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3e - Pogonomyrmex (Ephebomyrmex) naegelii - Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3f - Pogonomyrmex uruguayensis at nest entrance - Departamento Presidente Hayes (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3g - Pogonomyrmex uruguayensis at nest entrance - Departamento Presidente Hayes (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 3h - Pogonomyrmex uruguayensis nest - Departamento Presidente Hayes (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
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Gallery 4 - Solenopsis "Fire Ants" - Though the larger members of this genus are the well-known Fire Ants, most species are small and subterranean in behaviour. (www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 4a - Solenopsis saevissima  - Departamento Ñeembucú (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 4b - Solenopsis saevissima worker - Departamento Ñeembucú (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 4c - Solenopsis saevissima winged queen - Departamento Ñeembucú (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).
FIGURE 4d - Solenopsis saevissima nest mound - Departamento Presidente Hayes (Alex Wild www.myrmecos.net).