Appears to be a Trap Jaw ant. Are there many species?
Trap Jaw
There are four genera of trap-jaw ants recorded from Colombia, containing some 90 species:
Acanthognathus – Four species
Anochetus – Nine species
Odontomachus – Eleven species
Strumigenys – sixty-six species (not all have true trap jaws, though)
For a list of all currently known species recorded from Colombia, see https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Colombia
Excellent, thank you very much.
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