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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10.15560/16.5.1205
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Apterostigma angustum
Lattke, 1997
Figure 2A, B
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Antioquia
•
4 work- ers
;
Amalfi
;
06°46′66″N
,
075°06′42″W
; alt.
1045 m
;
25 Jun. 1997
;
F. Sernaleg
.;
UNAB 4365
;
Antioquia
•
6 workers
;
Amalfi
;
06°51′26″N
,
075°07′32″W
; alt.
1000 m
;
30 Jul. 1997
;
F. Sernaleg
.;
MEFLG 5786
;
Antioquia
•
2 workers
;
Amalfi
;
06°45′42.43″N
,
075°05′28.31″W
; alt.
1221 m
;
Sep. 2006
;
M. A. Vanegas
leg.;
MEFLG 11086
;
Antioquia
•
2 workers
;
Santafé de Antioquia
;
06° 33′41″N
,
075°49′54″W
; alt.
600 m
;
06 Oct. 2000
;
E. Ver- gara
,
F. Sernaleg
.;
UNAB 4738
;
Antioquia
•
12 gy- nes
,
20 workers
;
Amalfi
;
06°51′26″N
,
075°07′32″W
; alt.
1000 m
;
30 Jul. 1997
;
F. Sernaleg
.;
MEFLG 5786
;
Atlántico
•
1 worker
;
Juan de Acosta
;
10°46′02″N
,
075° 02′34″W
; alt.
117–250 m
;
Feb.–May 2012
;
J. Castro
,
S. Royero
leg.;
UNAB 5457
;
Caquetá
•
8 workers
;
Floren- cia
;
01°37′11″N
,
075°36′14″W
; alt.
300 m
;
31 Mar. 2016
;
F. Sernaleg
.;
UNAB 4365
;
Chocó
•
1 worker
;
Lloró
;
05° 29′00″N
,
076°32′00″W
; alt.
115 m
;
04 Mar. 2001
;
J. Neita
leg.;
UNAB 4366
;
Chocó
•
4 workers
;
Lloró
;
05°29′00″N
,
076°32′00″W
; alt.
115 m
;
03 Nov. 2000
;
J. Neita
leg.;
UNAB 4366
;
Sucre
•
1 worker
;
Ovejas
;
09°32′4.1″N
,
075° 13′18.5″W
; alt.
277 m
;
4 Feb. 2016
;
H. Cadena
leg.;
ME-
FLG 40895
.
Identification.
Frontal lobes in frontal view triangular; general cephalic profile in lateral view ovoid; compound eyes relatively small; and ventral mesopleural carina (epicnemial carina of
Serna and Mackay 2010
) absent (
Lattke 1997
).
Distribution.
The specimens found in Colombia are all new records for the country as well as a major range ex- pansion to the west (
Fig. 1A
) as
Apterostigma angustum
was only known from Venezuela and French Guiana (
Lattke 1997
;
Fernández and Sendoya 2004
).