Pogonomyrmex humerotumidus

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Pogonomyrmex humerotumidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Pogonomyrmecini
Genus: Pogonomyrmex
Species group: guatemaltecus
Species: P. humerotumidus
Binomial name
Pogonomyrmex humerotumidus
Vásquez-Bolaños & Mackay, 2004

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 19.70416667° to 18.26866389°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Mexico (type locality).

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

Castes

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Nomenclature

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

  • humerotumidus. Pogonomyrmex humerotumidus Vásquez-Bolaños & Mackay, 2004: 284 (w.) MEXICO.

Description

Vasquez-Bolanos 2004, page 284
Vasquez-Bolanos 2004, page 285
Vasquez-Bolanos 2004, page 285
Vasquez-Bolanos 2004, page 286

References

  • Vasquez-Bolanos, M. and Mackay, W.P. 2004. Una especie nueva de la hormiga cosechadora del género Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de México. Sociobiology 44(2): 283-287 (page 284, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
  • Vasquez-Bolanos, M. and W.P. Mackay. 2004. Sociobiology 44(2):283-287
  • Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133
  • Vásquez-Bolaños M., Ana Leticia EscalanteJiménez, and E. Navarro-Ulloa. 2014. First record of Pogonomyrmex humerotumidus Vásquez-Bolaños y Mackay, 2004 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) for Jalisco and new localities from Michoacán State, México. Dugesiana 21(1): 47.