Azteca andreae is an arboreal ant species found in the tropics of South America, most notably in French Guiana.

[citation needed] Azteca andreae have dark brown, shiny bodies covered in white hair.

The queens initially start the colonies inside of the tree, but the ants will eventually build external carton nests.

Large prey was only captured if on the edge of the leaf, because the ants use their specialized legs to hold onto the velvety surface underneath ‘’Cecropia obtusa’’ leaves.

This mechanism essentially acts like Velcro, with the many small hooks on the legs of the ant gripping onto the velvet of the underside of the leaf.

[citation needed] In an experiment by Alain Dejean et al. (2010), the ants captured more prey when hunting on Cecropia obtusa than any other plant.