Fulakora degenerata

Lattke (1991): S.P. Cover (pers. comm.) reports capturing this rare species, previously known only from SE Brazil: PERU, Tambopata, Cuzco Amazónico, 15 km NE Puerto Maldonado, 13-IV-89, S. Cover & J. Tobin, leg. Samples CA-129 and CA-119. Both samples were taken from clay soil at the base of a large tree, and each sample yielded two workers. All are deposited in MCZC. These specimens compare well with the degenerata type, however all 4 have 6 antennomeres, and not 7 as does the type.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Suriname.

Nomenclature

 * . Amblyopone degenerata Borgmeier, 1957: 111, figs. 18-20 (w.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, iv.1954 (F. Plaumann).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19.
 * combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
 * Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168, 191 (in key); Kempf, 1961b: 486; Kempf, 1972a: 19; Lattke, 1991c: 5; Bolton, 1995b: 61; Lacau & Delabie, 2002: 40 (in key); Arias-Penna, 2008a: 45; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 253; Feitosa, 2015c: 97; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 226; Fernández, Delsinne & Arias-Penna, 2019: 504.
 * Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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