Azteca trigona

Identification
A member of the Azteca trigona group. See the group page and keys for identification information.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago.

Nomenclature

 * . Azteca trigona Emery, 1893b: 146, pl. 2, figs. 79, 80 (q.) BRAZIL (Pará).
 * 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.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus gaigei, mathildae, mediops, subdentata.
 * festai. Azteca festai Emery, 1896b: 4, fig. 3 (w.) PANAMA.
 * 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.

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.