Apterostigma auriculatum Wheeler 1925
Authors/Creators
- 1. 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.
- 2. 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
- 3. 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.
- 4. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, CEP 81531 - 980, Curitiba, PR, 19020, Brazil
- 5. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA.
Description
(2) 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).
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4069328 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.15560/16.5.1205 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4059086 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8DFFA55806FFA5FC1A0F355605053C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UNAB
- Material sample ID
- UNAB 4361
- Event date
- 1998-04-20
- Verbatim event date
- 1998-04-20
- Scientific name authorship
- Wheeler
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Apterostigma
- Species
- auriculatum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apterostigma auriculatum Wheeler, 1925 sec. Mera-Rodríguez, Serna, Sosa-Calvo, Lattke & Rabeling, 2020
References
- Wheeler WM (1925) Neotropical ants in the collections of the Royal Museum of Stockholm. Part I. Arkiv for zoologi 17 A (8): 1 - 55.
- Lattke JE (1997) Revision del genero Apterostigma Mayr: (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 34 (5): 121 - 221. https: // doi. org / 10.11606 / issn. 2176 - 7793. v 34 i 5 p 121 - 221
- Fernandez F, Sendoya S (2004) Synonymic list of Neotropical ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Biota Colombiana 5 (1): 3 - 105.