Tetramorium bicolorum

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Tetramorium bicolorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: T. bicolorum
Binomial name
Tetramorium bicolorum
Vásquez-Bolaños, 2007

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Specimen labels

The types were collected in pine-oak forest, with the nests found under small stones at the base of pine trees. The ants formed little colonies, are very fast in their movements and not very aggressive. The queens were about to start the flight when they were collected on June 19, 2004, at approximately 10:30 am. Additional collections were made in mesophilic mountain forest (Vásquez-Bolaños 2007)

Identification

Vásquez-Bolaños (2007) - Placed into the tortuosum group because it has antennae with eleven segments, spatulate sting appendages, petiolar node longer than broad, anterior clypeal margin with a median impression, propodeum with a pair of spines, striate mandibles, dorsum of head rugose, and scape index (SI) < 100. This species differs from Tetramorium hispidum, Tetramorium mexicanum, Tetramorium placidum, and Tetramorium spinosum by the brown head and gaster, and orange mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole. This species is smaller than T. hispidum, T. mexicanum and T. spinosum, but larger than T. placidum. Pilosity on the head major of the eye diameter, pilosity on the scapes and tibiae is shorter than the diameter of the respective appendage.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 20.665° to 19.22715833°.

 
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

Nomenclature

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

  • bicolorum. Tetramorium bicolorum Vásquez-Bolaños, 2007: 94, figs. 2-5 (w.q.) MEXICO.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Vásquez-Bolaños 2007. Page 94.
Vásquez-Bolaños 2007. Page 95.

References

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
  • Huong N. T. T., P. V. Sang, and B. T. Viet. 2015. A preliminary study on diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) at Hon Ba Nature Reserve. Environmental Scientific Conference 7: 614-620.
  • Vasquez-Bolanos, M. 2007. Una especie nueva del genero Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico. Dugesiana 14(2):93-97.
  • Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133