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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Cyphomyrmex castagnei
Mackay & Baena, 1993
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Nariño
•
1 worker
;
Ricaurte
;
01°13′35″N
,
078°03′04″W
; alt.
920 m
;
21 Sep. 2015
;
J. Cancino
leg.;
UNAB 4748
.
Identification.
Mandible with five teeth; lateral cor- ner of cephalic vertex with long horn-like extensions; mesosoma with a large, spine-like posterior pronotal tubercle and a large anterior mesonotal tubercle; mesonotal protuberances spine like; and mesosoma with squamate hairs (
Mackay and Baena 1993
).
Figure 5.
Apterostigma
and
Cyphomyrmex
species encountered in Colombia.
A, B.
Apterostigma reburrum
,
CASENT0901686/ R. Perry.
C, D.
Apterostigma robustum
,
CASENT0904977/ Z. Lieberman.
E, F.
Apterostigma pilosum
complex, CASENT0603533/ A. Nobile.
G, H.
Cyphomyrmex cornutus
,
CASENT0923103/ W. Lee. Photographs obtained from the Antweb database (http://www.antweb.org).
Distribution.
Cyphomyrmex castagnei
is only known from Panama and the Pacific coast of Colombia (
Fig. 1B
) (
MacKay and Baena 1993
;
Fernández et al. 1996
;
Fernández and Sendoya 2004
).