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Ochetellus
''Ochetellus'' is a genus of ants first described by Steve Shattuck in 1992. He placed it in the subfamily Dolichoderinae of the family Formicidae. The ants in this genus are small and black in colour; workers measure in length, the males at around are smaller, and the queens are the largest, reaching . There are seven described species and three described subspecies that mostly live in Australia in a wide variety of habitats, but some species are found in Asia. One species, ''Ochetellus glaber'', has been introduced into New Zealand and the United States. The colonies are found in rotten wood, in the ground, under rocks or stones and in urban areas. The ants are both diurnal and nocturnal and forage on trees, in low vegetation and into human homes, where they are regarded as pests. These ants eat a variety of foods, including fruits, insects, sucrose, nectar and bird feces. They visit various flowers and attend to a variety of butterfly larvae. The thorny devil, an Australian lizard, predominantly feeds on ''Ochetellus'' workers, and other ant species also prey on them. ==Taxonomy== The genus ''Ochetellus'' was first described by Steve Shattuck in 1992, placing it in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.〔 The type species of the genus is ''Ochetellus glaber'', originally described as ''Hypoclinea glabra'' by Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr in 1862.〔 The genus was originally placed in the tribe Dolichoderini. It was later placed under the tribe Iridomyrmecini, now classified as a synonym for the tribe Leptomyrmecini. The genus consists of seven species and three subspecies that were previously placed in the genus ''Iridomyrmex''.〔 The genus contains the following species: ''O. democles'', ''O. epinotalis'', ''O. flavipes'', ''O. glaber'', ''O. punctatissimus'', ''O. sororis'' and ''O. vinsoni''.〔 The three subspecies classified in this genus are ''O. glaber clarithorax'', ''O. glaber consimilis'' and ''O. glaber sommeri''.
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