''Forelius nigriventris'' is a species of

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 ...

in the genus ''

Forelius ''Forelius'' is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus is known from southern United States to Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. ...

''. Described by Forel in 1912, the species is endemic to

South America 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 ...

.Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género ''Forelius'' (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). ''Sociobiology'' 35: 197-275 (page 259, male described)

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* Dolichoderinae Hymenoptera of South America Insects described in 1912 {{Dolichoderinae-stub