kelepn.
/kəˈlɛp/ A Central American stinging ant, Ectatomma tuberculatum.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Ectatomma (greenhead)
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1904 W. M. Wheeler in Science 30 Sept. 439/1 There is little probability that the kelep can be successfully established in Texas.
1910 W. M. Wheeler Ants i. 9 It [sc. United States Department of Agriculture] recently introduced a Guatemalan ant, the ‘kelep’ (Ectatomma tuberculatum) into Texas for the purpose of destroying the very injurious cotton-boll weevil.
1951 C. F. W. Muesebeck et al. Hymenoptera of Amer. North of Mexico 783 Ectatomma..tuberculatum... This species, known as the kelep, was introduced into Texas in the early part of this century to combat the cotton boll weevil. It has apparently become extinct.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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