Myrmicaria

Myrmicaria is an ant genus within the subfamily Myrmicinae.

Description
Myrmicaria can be discerned from related ant genera by a postpetiole with a complete tergosternal fusion, a postpetiole-gaster articulation shifted ventrally on the gaster, and an antenna with seven segments.

Biochemistry
Myrmicarin 430A, a heptacyclic alkaloid, was isolated from the poison glands of African Myrmicaria. The structure of its carbon skeleton was previously unknown.

Species

 * Myrmicaria anomala Arnold, 1960
 * Myrmicaria arachnoides (Smith, 1857)
 * Myrmicaria arnoldi Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria basutorum Arnold, 1960
 * Myrmicaria baumi Forel, 1901
 * Myrmicaria birmana Forel, 1902
 * Myrmicaria brunnea Saunders, 1842
 * Myrmicaria carinata (Smith, 1857)
 * Myrmicaria castanea Crawley, 1924
 * Myrmicaria distincta Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria exigua Andre, 1890
 * Myrmicaria faurei Arnold, 1947
 * Myrmicaria fodica (Jerdon, 1851)
 * Myrmicaria foreli Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria fumata Santschi, 1916
 * Myrmicaria fusca Stitz, 1911
 * Myrmicaria irregularis Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria laevior Forel, 1910
 * Myrmicaria lutea Emery, 1900
 * Myrmicaria melanogaster Emery, 1900
 * Myrmicaria natalensis (Smith, 1858)
 * Myrmicaria nigra (Mayr, 1862)
 * Myrmicaria opaciventris Emery, 1893
 * Myrmicaria reichenspergeri Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria rhodesiae Arnold, 1958
 * Myrmicaria rugosa (Smith, 1860)
 * Myrmicaria rustica Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria salambo Wheeler, 1922
 * Myrmicaria striata Stitz, 1911
 * Myrmicaria striatula Santschi, 1925
 * Myrmicaria tigreensis (Guerin-Meneville, 1849)
 * Myrmicaria vidua Smith, 1858