New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico
Author
Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1550-0062
Departamento de Biologia, Division de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico & Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingenieria Campus Guanajuato (UPIIG), Silao de la Victoria, Guanajuato, Mexico
Author
Rosas-Mejia, Madai
Instituto de Ecologia Aplicada, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Author
Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel
Entomologia, Departamento de Boatanica y Zoologia, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biologicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Author
Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica
Departamento de Biologia, Division de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Author
Janda, Milan
Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic & Catedras CONACYT, Laboratorio Nacional de Analisis y Sintesis Ecologica, ENES, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelia, Mexico
jandamil@gmail.com
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2021
2021-05-10
9
60630
60630
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60630
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60630
1314-2828-9-e60630
B5679B196D375F5B95C650A592DE15C0
Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862)
Materials
Type status:
Other material
.
Occurrence
:
lifeStage:
adult
; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive;
Taxon
:
kingdom:
Animalia
; phylum:
Arthropoda
; class:
Insecta
; order:
Hymenoptera
; family:
Formicidae
; genus:
Camponotus
; scientificNameAuthorship: (
Smith F.
, 1862);
Location
:
country:
Mexico
; stateProvince:
Nuevo
Leon
; locality:
Cumbres
; verbatimElevation:
422.4 m
; decimalLatitude:
25.44029
; decimalLongitude:
-100.09637
;
Identification
:
identifiedBy:
Aguilar-Mendez
M.J.
;
Rosas-Mejia
M.
;
Vasquez-Bolanos
M.
;
Event
:
samplingProtocol:
Hand
collecting
; year: 2016; month: 9; day: 2; habitat: human settlement
Distribution
Camponotus coruscus
(Smith F., 1862) were found foraging in a human settlement at the ridge of the Cumbres mountain range near Monterrey, Nuevo
Leon
. The amt at the locality is 21.3
°C
and 74.4 mm/cm2 of amp.
Camponotus coruscus
have been found in forests and near human settlements in Costa Rica (
Longino 2002
). This species has been previously recorded from south and central America, from Colombia to southern Mexico. Our findings expand their known distribution range by 139 km to the north.