- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies
- ›Narrow-waisted Wasps, Ants, and Bees
- ›Ants, Bees, and Stinging Wasps
- ›Formicoidea
- ›Ants
- ›Formicine Ants
- ›Lasiine Ants
- ›Myrmecocystus
Eremnocystus
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. Some species engage in highly territorial tournaments, which can result in intraspecific slavery. During the raids, they carry off larvae, workers, and plerergates. The genus has three subgenera, namely Myrmecocystus, Endiodioctes, and Eremnocystus.
8 branches of this group, most-observed first
Myrmecocystus tenuinodis
speciesMyrmecocystus tenuinodis
Creighton's Honeypot Ant
speciesMyrmecocystus creightoni
Myrmecocystus perimeces
speciesMyrmecocystus perimeces
Myrmecocystus lugubris
speciesMyrmecocystus lugubris
Cole's Honeypot Ant
speciesMyrmecocystus colei
Myrmecocystus hammettensis
speciesMyrmecocystus hammettensis
Dune Honey Ant
speciesMyrmecocystus arenarius
Myrmecocystus yuma
speciesMyrmecocystus yuma
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Eremnocystus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1195900.