Lower Attine Ant vs Pennant Ant

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Lower Attine Ant Pennant Ant
Scientific Name Cyphomyrmex rimosus Technomyrmex albipes
Order Hymenoptera Hymenoptera
Family Formicidae Formicidae
Size 2-3 mm 2.5-3 mm
Habitat Gardens Woodlands
Diet Detritivores Fruit Feeders
Regions Southern United States, Central and South America Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands
Conservation Least Concern Least Concern

Lower Attine Ant

A tiny, cryptic fungus-growing ant with a rugose and heavily sculptured dark brown body. Workers cultivate yeast rather than the mycelial fungus of more derived attines. They collect insect frass and dead plant material for their yeast gardens.

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Did You Know?

Unlike their famous leafcutter relatives, they grow a yeast-like fungus rather than the mushroom-like fungi cultivated by Atta and Acromyrmex.

Pennant Ant

A small dark ant with conspicuous whitish legs that forms long trailing columns up trees. It is a widespread tramp species found throughout the Old World tropics.

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Did You Know?

They are important dispersal agents for certain epiphytic plants whose seeds they carry to tree crevices.