Mycetosoritis hartmanni

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M. hartmanni occupies a critical position in the phylogeny of the Attini as the sister group to all neoattines except Kalathomyrmex and Mycetarotes. Interestingly, this species appears to be one of two extant representatives (the other, M. vinsoni, may be conspecific) of an independent evolutionary lineage that is not closely related to any other Mycetosoritis species included in the most recent phylogenetic study of the tribe Attini. In what is arguably a relictual distribution, M. hartmanni and the closely related, possibly conspecific M. vinsoni are native to the Southern United States (mostly Texas and Western Louisiana) and Central America south to northern Costa Rica, where the species inhabits areas with sandy soils. The nest architecture is relatively simple, consisting of one to four chambers, which are arranged vertically and are connected by a single tunnel. Despite more than a decade of fungus-growing ant research in the United States, M. hartmanni remains virtually unstudied. Due to its phylogenetic position as the sister group to the majority of the Neoattini, comparative genomic data from M. hartmanni will be critical for understanding the early evolution of attine agriculture. Ted Schultz

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Mycetosoritis hartmanni
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Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Mycetosoritis
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 34710
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