Talk:Azteca muelleri

A fact from Azteca muelleri appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the presence of the beetle Coelomera ruficornis on its host tree (pictured) is tolerated by the ant Azteca alfari, but not by the ant Azteca muelleri?

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Eponym[edit]

According to this source, this species was named after Fritz Müller, a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil to study its natural history. Müller was able to show that the small bodies at the petiole-bases of Cecropia are food bodies and are used by protecting ants of the genus Azteca which inhabit the hollow stems of these fast growing trees. Hanberke (talk) 03:36, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]