Azteca trigona

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Azteca trigona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Leptomyrmecini
Genus: Azteca
Species: A. trigona
Binomial name
Azteca trigona
Emery, 1893

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies
Synonyms

Identification

A member of the Azteca trigona group. See the group page and keys for identification information.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 9.13449° to -2.43°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil (type locality), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Association with Other Organisms

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  • This species is a host for the milichiid fly unknown species (a myrmecophile) in Guyana (Swann, 2010; Milichiidae online).
  • This species is a host for the phorid fly Nothomicrodon aztecarum (a parasitoid) (Quevillon, 2018) (encounter mode primary; direct transmission; transmission outside nest).

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • trigona. Azteca trigona Emery, 1893b: 146, pl. 2, figs. 79, 80 (q.) BRAZIL (Pará).
    • Emery, 1896b: 3 (w.); Forel, 1907e: 8 (m.).
    • Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 109; Emery, 1896b: 3; Forel, 1899c: 116; Forel, 1906d: 237; Forel, 1907e: 8; Emery, 1913a: 34; Mann, 1916: 471; Wheeler, W.M. 1916d: 330; Wheeler, W.M. 1918b: 26; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 15; Borgmeier, 1923: 96; Wheeler, W.M. 1923a: 4; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 245; Kempf, 1972a: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 27; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Guerrero, 2019: 706.
    • Senior synonym of festai: Forel, 1906d: 237; Forel, 1907e: 8; Emery, 1913a: 34; Borgmeier, 1923: 96; Shattuck, 1994: 27; Bolton, 1995b: 80.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus gaigei, mathildae, mediops, subdentata.
  • festai. Azteca festai Emery, 1896b: 4, fig. 3 (w.) PANAMA.
    • Forel, 1899c: 118 (s.).
    • Status as species: Forel, 1899c: 118; Forel, 1908e: 63.
    • Junior synonym of trigona: Forel, 1906d: 237; Forel, 1907e: 8; Emery, 1913a: 34; Borgmeier, 1923: 96; Shattuck, 1994: 27; Bolton, 1995b: 78.

Description

Karyotype

  • 2n = 28, karyotype = 10M+4SM+14ST (Brazil) (Cardoso et al., 2012b).

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Adams B. J., S. A. Schnitzer, and S. P. Yanoviak. 2019. Connectivity explains local ant community structure in a Neotropical forest canopy: a large-scale experimental approach. Ecology 100(6): e02673.
  • Borgmeier T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24: 33-103.
  • Emery C. 1896. Formiche raccolte dal dott. E. Festa nei pressi del golfo di Darien. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 11(229): 1-4.
  • Emery C. 1913. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137: 1-50.
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Forel A. 1908. Catálogo systemático da collecção de formigas do Ceará. Boletim do Museu Rocha 1(1): 62-69.
  • Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Shattuck S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112: i-xix, 1-241.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1918. Ants collected in British Guiana by Mr. C. William Beebe. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 26: 23-28.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.