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Gnamptogenys ericae

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ13644390 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gnamptogenys ericae is a species of ant in the subfamily Ectatomminae.

Description

Gnamptogenys ericae has a black exoskeleton while the mandibles, legs, and antennae are dark brown. Its mandibles are subtriangular, and it has small metathorax.

Range

Gnamptogenys ericae is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, and Venezuela; or generally the neotropical region.

Habitat

Gnamptogenys ericae is usually found in low vegetation in the rainforests of South America.

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“Gnamptogenys ericae” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gnamptogenys, ericae and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13644390. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gnamptogenys ericae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.