[Taxacom] Tree ant(?) shelter(?), Atlantic forest, northeastern Bahia, Brazil

[Doug Yanega]

>http://bit.ly/oCu7Dn
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>I was attacked by tree ants when removing a neighboring branch.

An initial guess would be Crematogaster (e.g., C. foliocrypta), but 
that assumes that the smooth surface of the nest was formed in 
contact with another leaf surface; the photo suggests otherwise, 
though, and as such, it's not a familiar structure to me. Of course, 
Crematogaster *is* a big genus...

Peace,
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