Apterostigma pilosum, Mayr, 1859

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 : 1213

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https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.5.1205

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4338367

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scientific name

Apterostigma pilosum
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(15) Apterostigma pilosum View in CoL species complex

Figure 5E, F View Figure 5

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 5 workers; Amalfi; 06°55′00″N, 075°04′00″W; alt. 1045 m; 25 Jun. 1997; F. Sernaleg.; UNAB 5453 GoogleMaps ; Antioquia • 2 workers; Amalfi; 06°46′39″N, 075°05′22″W; alt. 1550 m; 30 Jul. 1997; F. Sernaleg.; MEFLG 40843 GoogleMaps ; Antioquia • 1 worker; Santafé de Antioquia; 06°33′41″N, 075°49′45″W; alt. 600 m; 06 Oct. 2000; E. Vergara, F. Sernaleg.; UNAB 5453 GoogleMaps ; Tolima • 1 worker; Armero; 05°01′55″N, 074°53′27″W; alt. 261 m; 12 Apr. 2012; G. Villamizar leg.; UNAB 5453 GoogleMaps .

Identification. The Apterostigma pilosum species-complex needs athorough taxonomic revision. Lattke (1997) provides a general diagnosis for the putative species in the complex: eyes with 5–6 ommatidia along the mi- nor axis; mesopleural ventral carina present or absent but never prominent, lamelliform, nor thick and shin- ing; frontal lobes in cephalic dorsal view triangular or uniformly convex; anterolateral mesonotal prominence absent; and dorsal postpetiolar profile in lateral view strongly curved. The above specimens all agree with this diagnosis.

Distribution. The species of the Apterostigma pilosum complex are widely distributed in Central and South America, ranging from Tamaulipas in Mexico south to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Apterostigma