Azteca foveiceps

Azteca foveiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Leptomyrmecini
Genus:	Azteca
Species:	A. foveiceps
Binomial name
	Azteca foveiceps; Wheeler, W.M., 1921

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Guyana (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Biology

Explore Overview of Azteca biology

All known Azteca species are arboreal, nesting in living or dead wood, or external carton nests. Some species exhibit obligate associations with myrmecophytes, especially of the genus Cecropia (see Chapter 14 of The Ants). Feeding habits are generalized with foraging occurring both arboreally and on the ground.

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Castes

Nomenclature

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

foveiceps. Azteca foveiceps Wheeler, W.M. 1921f: 163, fig. 16 (w.q.m.) GUYANA.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “numerous”).
- [Note: Shattuck, 1994: 18, cites 70w, 23q, 28m syntypes (8w, 1q LACM, 62w, 22q, 28m MCZC).]
- Type-locality: Guyana (“British Guiana”): Kartabo, 1920 (W.M. Wheeler).
- Type-depositories: LACM, MCZC.
- Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 229; Kempf, 1972a: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 78.
- Distribution: Guyana.

Description

References

Wheeler, W. M. 1921f. The Tachigalia ants. Zoologica (N. Y.) 3: 137-168 (page 163, fig. 16 worker, queen, male described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
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. 1921. The Tachigalia ants. Zoologica (New York) 3: 137-168.
Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.