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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2020-09-22
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journal article
10.15560/16.5.1205
2b77aabb-48b0-4b25-b508-06776e6231e6
1809-127X
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Apterostigma auriculatum
Wheeler, 1925
Figure 2C, D
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Antioquia
•
1 worker
;
Amalfi
;
06°54′11″N
,
075°05′26.7″W
; alt.
1045 m
;
20 Apr. 1998
;
F. Sernaleg
.;
UNAB 4361
.
Identification.
Eyes relatively big and prominent (more than nine ommatidia along the shortest axis); frontal lobes subquadrate in full-face view, anterior margin of clypeus concave, lacking shiny cuticular strip; neck relatively long and broad, lacking median carina; hu- meral prominence in dorsal view shaped as angular lobe; ventral mesopleural carina in lateral view fine; and pet- iole in lateral view triangular, with antero- and posterodorsal profiles almost of same length (
Lattke 1997
).
Distribution.
This species occurs from Honduras to Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil and is widely distributed throughout central and northwestern South America (
Lattke 1997
;
Fernández and Sendoya 2004
).