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 jubatum
Wheeler, 1925
Figure 4C, D
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Chocó
•
1 worker
;
Quibdó
;
05°40′40″N
,
076°35′36″W
; alt.
35 m
;
24 Nov. 2001
;
J. Neita
leg.;
UNAB 4743
.
Identification.
Head in frontal view with frontal lobes ovoid; anterior portion of clypeus with profile concave and convex in the middle; mandibles with 7–8 teeth; and humeral prominence high (
Lattke 1997
).
Distribution.
Apterostigma jubatum
is mostly distributed throughout the Amazon-Orinoco basin, known to occur in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela (
Fernández et al. 1996
;
Lattke 1997
) as well as the Bra- zilian states of Amazonas, Minas Gerais, and Pará.