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Linepithema tsachila

Description

Linepithema tsachila

Distribution. Linepithema tsachila was recorded in the departments of Chocó and Valle del Cauca in East and Southeast of the country (Wild 2007); in this work, we expand the distributional records to the department of Nariño (Fig. 3).

Biology. Linepithema tsachila ranges from 286–1800 m and has been collected in very humid tropical forest and very humid premontane forest.

Examined material. NARIÑO: Barbacoas, Tajadas, 1°39’21”N 78°9’55”W, 1000 m (IAvH); El Diviso, 520 m (IAvH); Ricaurte, La Planada, 1800 m (IAvH). VALLE DEL CAUCA: Bajo Anchicayá (IAvH).

Notes

Published as part of Escárraga, Mayron & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2016, The ant genus Linepithema (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in Colombia, pp. 446-458 in Zootaxa 4208 (5) on page 456, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/211765

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Linepithema
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
tsachila
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Wild, A. (2007) Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Linepithema (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA.