Azteca trigona

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 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Azteca trigona gaigei Forel, 1914 Azteca trigona mathildae Forel, 1906 Azteca trigona mediops Forel, 1904 Azteca trigona subdentata Forel, 1904
Synonyms
Azteca festai Emery, 1896

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

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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

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

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

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).

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).
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Brazil: Pará, Santarém (no collector’s name).
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • 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.
  • Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus gaigei, mathildae, mediops, subdentata.
• festai. Azteca festai Emery, 1896b: 4, fig. 3 (w.) PANAMA.
  • Type-material: 5 syntype workers (“partly mutilated”).
  • Type-locality: Panama: Darien, Colon (E. Festa).
  • Type-depositories: MHNG, MSNG.
  • 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

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

References

• Adams, E. S. 1994. Territory defense by the ant Azteca trigona: maintenance of an arboreal ant mosaic. Oecologia (Berlin) 97:203-208. [1994-03]
• Adams, R.M.M., Wells, R.L., Yanoviak, S.P., Frost, C.J., Fox, E.G.P. 2020. Interspecific Eavesdropping on Ant Chemical Communication. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8. (doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00024).
• Albuquerque, E., Prado, L., Andrade-Silva, J., Siqueira, E., Sampaio, K., Alves, D., Brandão, C., Andrade, P., Feitosa, R., Koch, E., Delabie, J., Fernandes, I., Baccaro, F., Souza, J., Almeida, R., Silva, R. 2021. Ants of the State of Pará, Brazil: a historical and comprehensive dataset of a key biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon Basin. Zootaxa 5001, 1–83 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5001.1.1).
• Cerda, X., Arnan, X., Retana, J. 2013. Is competition a significant hallmark of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ecology? Myrmecological News 18: 131-147.
• Emery, C. 1893l. Studio monografico sul genere Azteca Forel. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)3:119-152 (page 146, pl. 2, figs. 79, 80 queen described)
• Emery, C. 1896b. Alcune forme nuove del genere Azteca For. e note biologiche. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino 11(2 230: 1-7 (page 3, worker described)
• Forel, A. 1906d. Fourmis néotropiques nouvelles ou peu connues. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 50: 225-249 (page 237, senior synonym of festai)
• Forel, A. 1907h. Formiciden aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. II. Teil. Neueingänge seit 1900. Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hambg. 24: 1-20 (page 8, male described)
• Franco, W., Ladino, N., Delabie, J.H.C., Dejean, A., Orivel, J., Fichaux, M., Groc, S., Leponce, M., Feitosa, R.M. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674, 509–543 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4674.5.2).
• Marting, P.R., Kallman, N.M., Wcislo, W.T., Pratt, S.C. 2018. Ant-plant sociometry in the Azteca-Cecropia mutualism. Scientific Reports 8, 17968 (doi:10.1038/s41598-018-36399-9).
• Yanoviak, S.P., Frederick, D.N. 2014. Water surface locomotion in tropical canopy ants. Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 2163–2170 (doi:10.1242/jeb.101600).

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.