Azteca trailii

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname.

Ant Gardens
This species is known to form ant gardens (i.e., they are able to initiate ant gardens or are restricted to ant gardens) (Davidson, 1988 (noted as ant-garden initiator); Kleinfeldt, 1986; Marini Filho, 1999 (noted as ant-garden initiator); Orivel & Leroy, 2011; Schmit-Neuerburg & Bluthgen, 2007).

Nomenclature

 * . Azteca trailii Emery, 1893b: 133, pl. 1, figs. 33-36 (s.w.m.) BRAZIL (Amazonas).
 * Forel, 1904e: 692 (q.).
 * Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 109; Emery, 1896c: 6; Forel, 1904e: 692; Forel, 1906d: 239; Forel, 1912h: 50; Emery, 1913a: 34; Wheeler, W.M. 1921f: 163; Borgmeier, 1923: 95; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 242; Kempf, 1972a: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 26; Bolton, 1995b: 80.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus filicis, tillandsiarum, tococae.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Dejean A., B. Corbara, J. Orivel, R. R. Snelling, J. H. C. Delabie, and M. Belin-Depoux. 2000. The importance of ant gardens in the pioneer vegetal formations of French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 35(3): 425-439.
 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
 * 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.
 * 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.