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Azteca trigona mediops
| Azteca trigona mediops | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Azteca |
| Species: | A. trigona |
| Subspecies: | A. trigona mediops |
| Trinomial name | |
| Azteca trigona mediops Forel, 1904 | |
Identification
A member of the Azteca trigona group. See the group page and keys for identification information.
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -12.7° to -12.7°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil (type locality), French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, 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. |
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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
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- mediops. Azteca festai r. mediops Forel, 1904c: 43 (w.) BRAZIL (Ceará).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- [Notes (i): Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 79, cites 3w syntypes NHMB; (ii) Shattuck, 1994: 28, cites 42w syntypes (4 MCZC, 35 MHNG, 3 NHMB).]
- Type-locality: Brazil: Ceará (Diaz da Rocha).
- Type-depositories: MCZC, MHNG, NHMB.
- Subspecies of tonduzi: Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 245.
- Subspecies of trigona: Forel, 1906d: 237; Emery, 1913a: 34; Wheeler, W.M. 1916d: 330; Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 15; Borgmeier, 1923: 96; Kempf, 1972a: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 28; Bolton, 1995b: 79.
- Distribution: Brazil.
Description
References
- Forel, A. 1904d. Miscellanea myrmécologiques. Rev. Suisse Zool. 12: 1-52 (page 43, worker described)
- Forel, A. 1906d. Fourmis néotropiques nouvelles ou peu connues. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 50: 225-249 (page 237, race of trigona)
- 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).
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da regia~o Neotropical. Stud. Entomol. 15: 3-344 (page 35, subspecies of trigona)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1916f. Ants collected in Trinidad by Professor Roland Thaxter, Mr. F. W. Urich, and others. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 323-330 (page 330, race of trigona)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262 (page 245, subspecies of tonduzi)