A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records
Author
Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Museo Entomológico UNAB, Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía (SIA), Carrera 30 # 45 - 03, Bogotá D. C., 111321, Colombia; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
lmerarod@asu.edu
Author
Serna, Francisco
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Museo Entomológico UNAB, Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía (SIA), Carrera 30 # 45 - 03, Bogotá D. C., 111321, Colombia
Author
Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA; Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, NHB CE 516, MRC 188, 1000 Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20560, USA.
Author
Lattke, John
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, CEP 81531 - 980, Curitiba, PR, 19020, Brazil
Author
Rabeling, Christian
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
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Apterostigma ierense
Weber, 1937
Figure 4A, B
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Vaupés
•
1 worker
;
Taraira
;
01°04′00″S
,
069°31′00″W
; alt.
85 m
;
14–20 May 2001
;
A. Sabogal
leg.;
UNAB 4742
.
Identification.
Lateroventral margin of frontal lobes completely curved and covering the antennae inser- tions; the cervical carina in dorsal view is shaped as two rounded lobes; and body densely pubescent (
Lattke 1997
).
Distribution.
Apterostigma ierense
is mostly distributed in the Amazon basin, being reported from Bolivia, Bra- zil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In Central America,
A. ierense
is only known from Panama (
Kempf 1972
;
Lattke 1997
;
Mayhé-Nuñes and Jaffé 1998
; Fernán- dez and Sendoya 2004).