A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America
Author
Longino, John T.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3456
1
35
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.282199
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1175-5326
282199
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Adelomyrmex grandis
Fernández, 2003
Adelomyrmex grandis
Fernández, 2003: 18
, figs. 34, 75.
Holotype
worker:
Colombia
, Nariño, Barbacoas, vereda Berlín, El Diviso,
520 m
,
22.viii.94
(F. Escobar leg. No.294) [ICN] (not examined).
Geographic range.
Colombia
.
Comments.
Adelomyrmex grandis
and
A. vaderi
are two Colombian species that are similar in size but differ in a number of sculpture, shape, and color characters (Fernández, pers. com.). In
A. grandis
, the whole body is the same color, versus somewhat bicolored in
A. vaderi
(with lighter-colored gaster). The postpetiole of
A. grandis
is more typical, wider than long in dorsal view, and without a pronounced posterodorsal projection or carina in lateral view. In
A. vaderi
, the postpetiole is longer than wide in dorsal view, with a bluntly acute posterodorsal projection in lateral view. Also, the rugose sculpture on the face of mesosoma of
A. grandis
is more regular and less reticulate compared to
A. vaderi
. The two are geographically separate, with
A. grandis
being in the southwest of
Colombia
, on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental, and
A. vaderi
in central
Colombia
on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Oriental.