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Myrmecocystus mimicus (Desert honey ant)

Wikipedia Abstract

Myrmecocystus mimicus is a North American species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus. The species is widely distributed, from Kansas south to Texas and Mexico, and west to California.
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Prey / Diet

Cochliomyia macellaria (secondary screw worm)[1]
Lucilia sericata (Green blowfly)[1]
Oxysarcodexia ochripyga[1]
Platycephala umbraculata (house fly)[1]
Sarcophaga utilis[1]

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♦ 1Temporal Variation in Food Web Structure: 16 Empirical Cases, Kenneth Schoenly and Joel E. Cohen, Ecological Monographs, 61(3), 1991, pp. 267–298
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0