big .. 20mm it doesn't look like the neoponera villosa that I'm used to seeing
Female flightless Aust. Bag Moth (ovipositor extending from abdominal segment), found inside the house and released outside (image #3 shows her from underneath through glass).
interesting hunting behavior where groups of Strumigenys sit together on a leaf
Yet another new species from the "Mata de cipó", a transition biome between the Caatinga and the Atlantic Forest, maybe something completely new.
A new species that is being described at the Sertão Myrmecology Laboratory, in Bahia - BR.
Formiga pequena, uma das menores do genero. pouquissimo coletada, encontrada em amostra de serrpilheira, ampliando a área de ocorrência da mesma.
Espécie raramente coletada, vive em associação com bromelias. Espécie de tamanho muito superior a Espécies do mesmo gênero que habita o solo e a serapilheira. A coleta foi realizada em bromelias associadas a uma árvore de Erythrina que caiu após periodo de chuva.
Species rarely collected, living in association with bromeliads. It is much larger in size compared to other species of the same genus that inhabit the soil and leaf litter. The collection was made in bromeliads associated with a fallen Erythrina tree after a period of rain.
New specie confirmed by the genus reviewer (Gabriel Celante). It is in the Thaumatomyrmex LMS08 group
Dos hormigas parecían estar reproduciéndose. Una era de una coloración negra, mientras que la otra poseía una coloración rojiza. Ambas poseían alas.
Colônia dentro de um casulo abandonado de mariposa
Colony inside an abandoned cocoon
The specimen was submitted to the Key of Fr. Tomás Borgmeier
Key (PT-BR): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PSf-3bLyijuJ2L2cfP1Ihdb7sPKccsYE/view?usp=drivesdk
Specimen identified by the specialist in Strumigenys and PhD in Zoology Esperidião A. Santos