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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Mycetomoellerius urichii
(Forel, 1893)
Figure 9C, D
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Cesar
•
1 worker
;
Valledupar
;
10°23′17″N
,
073°14′11″W
; alt.
250 m
;
Mar. 2011
;
Y. Dominguez
leg.;
UNAB
.
Identification.
Head square, as wide as long; mandibles subopaque smooth and sparsely punctuated at apex, in- distinctly denticulate at the terminal border; median pro- notal spines tuberculated; lateral pronotal spines slender and with small tubercles; mesonotum with four tubercu- lated spines; and propodeal spines robust and with small tubercles (Forel 1893;
Fernández and Serna 2019
).
Distribution.
Mycetomoellerius urichii
is present in Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, the Lesser Antilles, Pa- nama, Suriname, Venezuela, and much of Brazil (Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Tocan- tins) (
Kempf 1972
;
Fernández and Sendoya 2004
).