Apterostigma peruvianum Wheeler, 1925

Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John & Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1205-1227 : 1212-1213

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.5.1205

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4338363

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scientific name

Apterostigma peruvianum Wheeler, 1925
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(12) Apterostigma peruvianum Wheeler, 1925 View in CoL

Figure 4G, H View Figure 4

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Caquetá • 3 workers; Florencia; 01°30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. GoogleMaps 2017; UNAB members leg.; UNAB 4737 .

Identification. Frontal lobes in frontalview subquadrate, each posterior margin straight and inclined, anterolateral margins convex; posterior cephalic profile rounded; eyes with a maximum of 10 ommatidia along the shortest axis; and postpetiole with posteroventral process relatively big and usually dentiform ( Lattke 1997).

Distribution. Previous Colombian records are from Valle del Cauca, thus this new record from Caquetá ex- pands the distribution of this species from the Andes into the Amazon region ( Fig. 1A View Figure 1 ). Besides Colombia, Apterostigma peruvianum is also present in Bolivia, Ec- uador, Peru, and Venezuela ( Kempf 1972; Lattke 1997; Fernández and Sendoya 2004).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Apterostigma