While new ant species are usually discovered when researchers go through leaf litter, it turns out that sifting through the stomach contents of insect-eating frogs might prove no less effective.
A new species of the rarely collected long-toothed ant was discovered in the belly of a Little Devil poison frog in Ecuador, and the finding was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.
The new species, Lenomyrmex hoelldobleri, was described based on a single female worker ant recovered from the frog. It is the seventh known species in this little-known Neotropical genus.read more and see photo
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