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 striatus (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
(Estanzuela)
; verbatimElevation:
628.7 m
; decimalLatitude:
25.55598
; decimalLongitude:
-100.26521
;
Identification
:
identifiedBy:
Aguilar-Mendez
M.J.
;
Rosas-Mejia
M.
;
Vasquez-Bolanos
M.
;
Event
:
samplingProtocol:
Hand
collecting
; year: 2016; month: 9; day: 1; habitat: submontane shrubland
Distribution
Camponotus striatus
(Smith F., 1862) were found in the Estanzuela locality of the Cumbres mountain system near Monterrey, Nuevo
Leon
(amt is 20.3
°C
and 55.6 mm/cm2 of amp) in a submontane shrubland. The species are distributed throughout Central and South America. In Mexico, they can be found from the
Yucatan
Peninsula to Tamaulipas, including in the Pacific coastal States of Jalisco and Nayarit.
Biology
Camponotus striatus
has been found nesting inside logs and twigs in forests and coffee plantations in Chiapas at altitudes ranging from 650-900 m a.s.l. (
De la Mora et al. 2015
).