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Bellota 
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Small, elongate dendryphantines with swollen first legs, reaching south
Texas from neotropics. Generally resemble the grey arboreal cephalotine
ants, but only B. wheeleri is grey in the US; longimana resembles a pseudoscorpion
and micans is orange.
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For more information and links to the species, go to Bellota in the Tree of Life.
Identification
Among the smallest, narrowest dendryphantines north of Mexico. The only other antlike nearctic dendryphantines are some species of Tutelina and Paradamoetas, both of which are only mildly antlike.Compare to:
Habitat
Vegetation-dwellers. B. longimana is known from grasses in southern Texas.
