They are usually common ants. The workers are
between 22 and 28 mm in length and queens are
slightly larger. The colonies are composed of several
hundred individuals and usually roam the tree trunks
and dead vegetation in small groups.
The pain of his bite is 30 times that of a bee or wasp,
and those who have suffered the sting ensure the analogy
of it with the firing of a bullet.
This ant is used in a tribe in northern Brazil where there are children of 12 years, the tribe made a ritual to become men, they put in their tens of ants hands because it is said that if you endure the pain that this ant occurs, enemies will have some fear of the young as they are able to endure any pain.
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