Azteca ulei

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Peru.

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) (Campbell et al., 2022; Madison, 1979).

Nomenclature

 * . Azteca ulei Forel, 1904e: 694 (s.w.) BRAZIL (Amazonas).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 35; Borgmeier, 1923: 97; Wheeler, W.M. & Bequaert, 1929: 35; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 245; Kempf, 1972a: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 28; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 226.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus cordiae, gagatina, nigricornis.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Edwards, D.P., M. Hassall, W.J. Sutherland and D.W. Yu. 2006. Assembling a mutualism: ant symbionts locate their host plants by detecting volatile chemicals. Insectes Sociaux 53:172-176
 * Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.