''Ectatomma'' is a

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

ant Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...

s in the

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...

Ectatomminae Ectatomminae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes. The subfamily was described in 2003 when Barry Bolton divided the Ponerinae Ponerinae, the ponerine a ...

. The genus contains 17 described extant species and one extinct species.

Distribution and habitat

''Ectatomma'' is one of the most common genera in the Neotropical region, with most species being

South American South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

in their distribution, but others can be found in

Central America Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...

as well as sparse populations in the

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

. ''Ectatomma'' may be found in

rainforests Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree Canopy (biology), canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropi ...

savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach th ...

s, dry environments and cultivated areas.

Species

*'' Ectatomma brunneum'' Smith, 1858 *'' Ectatomma confine'' Mayr, 1870 *'' Ectatomma edentatum'' Roger, 1863 *''

Ectatomma gibbum ''Ectatomma'' is a Neotropical realm, Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae. The genus contains 17 described extant species and one extinct species. Distribution and habitat ''Ectatomma'' is one of the most common genera in the ...

'' Kugler & Brown, 1982 *'' Ectatomma goninion'' Kugler & Brown, 1982 * †'' Ectatomma gracile'' Emery, 1891 *'' Ectatomma lugens'' Emery, 1894 *'' Ectatomma muticum'' Mayr, 1870 *'' Ectatomma opaciventre'' (Roger, 1861) *'' Ectatomma parasiticum'' Feitosa & Fresneau, 2008 *'' Ectatomma permagnum'' Forel, 1908 *'' Ectatomma planidens'' Borgmeier, 1939 *'' Ectatomma quadridens'' (Fabricius, 1793) *'' Ectatomma ruidum'' (Roger, 1860) *'' Ectatomma suzanae'' Almeida Filho, 1986 *''

Ectatomma tuberculatum ''Ectatomma tuberculatum'', known in Qʼeqchiʼ as the kelep, is a Neotropical species of ant in the subfamily Ectatomminae. Common in the Neotropics, the species is found from Mexico to Argentina. It is a host A host is a person responsib ...

'' (Olivier, 1792) *'' Ectatomma vizottoi'' Almeida Filho, 1987

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* Ectatomminae Ant genera Hymenoptera of South America Hymenoptera of North America Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist) {{ant-stub

Distribution and habitat

Species

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