Acanthostichus brevicornis is a species of ant belonging to the genus Acanthostichus. Emery first described the species in 1894, and a synonym was given by Bruch in 1924. Their distribution is in South America, in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Paraguay and Suriname.[1][2][3][4][5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Genus: | Acanthostichus |
| Species: | A. brevicornis
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthostichus brevicornis Emery, 1894
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References
edit- ^ Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 54, catalogue)
- ^ Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137-241 (page 142, worker described)
- ^ Kusnezov, N. 1962a. El género Acanthostichus Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zool. Lilloana 18: 121-138 (page 130, senior synonym of ramosmexiae)
- ^ MacKay, W. P. 1996. A revision of the ant genus Acanthostichus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 27: 129-179 (page 144, see also)
- ^ MacKay, W.P. 2004. A new species of the ant genus Acanthostichus Mayr from Paraguay, and a description of the gyne of A. brevicornis Emery. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 97-101. (page 98, figs. 5-9, 10 worker, queen described)
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