Basiceros manni

Basiceros manni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Basiceros
Species:	B. manni
Binomial name
Basiceros manni Brown & Kempf, 1960 Specimen Label

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  Full-face view of the worker of Basiceros manni. Photo by Minsoo Dong.

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Basiceros species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (type locality), Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Castes

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Nomenclature

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

• manni. Basiceros manni Brown & Kempf, 1960: 177, figs. 3, 11 (w.q.) COSTA RICA, HONDURAS.
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 27 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens.
  • Type-locality: holotype Costa Rica: Santa Clara Prov., Hamburg Farm, 1924 (F. Nevermann); paratypes: 19 workers, 2 queens with same data, 6 workers Costa Rica: Columbiana Farm, iii.1920 (W.M. Mann), 2 workers Honduras: Songrelaya, v.1924 (W.M. Mann).
  • Type-depositories: USNM (holotype); MCZC, MZSP, USNM (paratypes).
  • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1983: 607 (l.).
  • Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 36; Brown, 1974c: 138; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1986: 12; Wilson & Hölldobler, 1986: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Feitosa, et al. 2007: 19 (in key).
  • Distribution: Costa Rica, Honduras.

References

• Badejo, O., Skaldina, O., Gilev, A., Sorvari, J. 2020. Benefits of insect colours: a review from social insect studies. Oecologia. (doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04738-1).
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 80, catalogue)
• Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Stud. Entomol. (n.s.) 3: 161-250 (page 177, figs. 3, 11 worker, queen described)
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1986a. Soil-binding pilosity and camouflage in ants of the tribes Basicerotini and Stegomyrmecini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoomorphology (Berl.) 106: 12-20 (page 12, see also)
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1983a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 108: 601-610 (page 607, larva described)
• Wilson, E. O.; Hölldobler, B. 1986. Ecology and behavior of the Neotropical cryptobiotic ant Basiceros manni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Insectes Soc. 33: 70-84.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Brown W. L., Jr., and W. W. Kempf. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Stud. Entomol. (n.s.) 3: 161-250.
• 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.
• INBio Collection (via Gbif)
• Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
• Longino J. T. 2013. Ants of Nicargua. Consulted on 18 Jan 2013. https://sites.google.com/site/longinollama/reports/ants-of-nicaragua
• Longino J. T. L., and M. G. Branstetter. 2018. The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants. Ecography 41: 1-12.
• Longino J. T., J. Coddington, and R. K. Colwell. 2002. The ant fauna of a tropical rain forest: estimating species richness three different ways. Ecology 83: 689-702.
• Longino J. T., and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient. Ecosphere 2(3): 16pp.
• Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/
• Mertl A. L., J. F. A. Traniello, K. Ryder Wilkie, and R. Constantino. 2012. Associations of two ecologically significant social insect taxa in the litter of an amazonian rainforest: is there a relationship between ant and termite species richness? Psyche doi:10.1155/2012/312054
• Olson D. M. 1991. A comparison of the efficacy of litter sifting and pitfall traps for sampling leaf litter ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a tropical wet forest, Costa Rica. Biotropica 23(2): 166-172.
• Probst R. S., B. D. Wray, C. S. Moreau, and C. R. F. Brandao. 2019. A phylogenetic analysis of the dirt ants, Basiceros (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): inferring life histories through morphological convergence. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(4): 1–12.
• Wilson E. O., and B. Hölldobler. 1986. Ecology and behavior of the Neotropical cryptobiotic ant Basiceros manni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Insectes Sociaux 33: 70-84.