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Azteca alfari - Cecropia Ant Nest
Panamá

photograph © Jo-anne Holley

The hollow stem of a Cecropia tree is compartmentalized.  The fierce Azteca that inhabit this tree raise their young and tend mealybugs inside the chambers.

 
Panamá: Canal Zone. Gamboa.
9.1177ºN 79.6959ºW 50m
vii.2007 Secondary forest edge.
#AW2922, voucher specimens deposited at ALWC.

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