A preliminary checklist of soil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Colombian Amazon

Abstract. BACKGROUND: This paper presents an updated list of soil ants of the Colombian Amazon collected in three different river basins: the Amazon, the Caquetá and the Putumayo. The list includes 10 subfamilies, 60 genera and 218 species collected from TSBF monoliths at four different depths (Litt...

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Autores principales: Castro, Daniel, Fernández, Fernando, Meneses, Andrés D, Tocora, Maria C, Sanchez, Stepfania, Peña-Venegas, Clara P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2018
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30473619
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e29278
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Sumario:Abstract. BACKGROUND: This paper presents an updated list of soil ants of the Colombian Amazon collected in three different river basins: the Amazon, the Caquetá and the Putumayo. The list includes 10 subfamilies, 60 genera and 218 species collected from TSBF monoliths at four different depths (Litter, 0 - 10 cm, 10 - 20 cm and 20 - 30 cm). This updated list increases considerably the knowledge of edaphic macrofauna of the region, due to the limited published information about soil ant diversity in the Colombian Amazon region. NEW INFORMATION: This is the first checklist of soil ant diversity of the Colombian Amazon region. Six new records of species for Colombia are exposed: Acropyga tricuspis (LaPolla, 2004), Typhlomyrmex clavicornis (Emery, 1906), Typhlomyrmex meire (Lacau, Villemant & Delabie, 2004), Cyphomyrmex bicornis (Forel, 1895), Megalomyrmex emeryi (Forel, 1904) and Myrmicocrypta spinosa (Weber, 1937), most of them corresponding to subterranean ants.

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