<documentid="8580A47A0D38AE4643C2BA68B2332B7C"ID-DOI="10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2021-0089"ID-ISSN="1806-9665"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13197060"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1722637800237"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Pazmiño-Palomino, Alex & Troya, Adrian"docDate="2022"docId="D60787DD2535FFCE89AFFF64FCA9FD23"docLanguage="en"docName="RevBrasEntomol.66.2.e20210089.pdf"docOrigin="Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20210089) 66 (2)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9665-rbent-2021-0089"docStyle="DocumentStyle:0303D37C566E4E2A42C6591146119864.3:RevBrasEntomol.2015-.journal_article"docStyleId="0303D37C566E4E2A42C6591146119864"docStyleName="RevBrasEntomol.2015-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="3"docTitle="Camponotus (Myrmothrix) rufipes"docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="5"masterDocId="2A3EFFA52531FFCA8938FFFEFFACFF83"masterDocTitle="Ants of Ecuador: new species records for a megadiverse country in South America"masterLastPageNumber="15"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="5"updateTime="1722685706823"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
<mods:affiliationid="8185155401BA3F358E93F4667A0B4446">Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Departamento de Biología, Quito, Ecuador. & Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.</mods:affiliation>
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This species is easily recognizable due to its blackish body with brown or orange legs making a strong contrast; abundant erect hairs on the antennal scapes and tibiae; antennal scapes flattened near the base; anterior margin of clypeus concave and angled laterally.
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). Colonies make their nests in rotten wood or under tree bark. Oliveira et al., (2015) found colonies of
. The workers can be very aggressive and may be found foraging inside the vegetation (litter leaf) or on ground trails. It may inhabit in anthropized areas, as for example, cities and crops, but also in natural grasslands, shrubby areas, and tropical rain forests (
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