Rogeria curvipubens Emery, 1894

Herrera Léon Baert Wouter Dekoninck, Henri W., Causton, Charlotte E., Sevilla, Christian R., Pozo, Paola & Hendrickx, Frederik, 2020, Distribution and habitat preferences of Galápagos ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 93, pp. 1-60 : 30

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scientific name	Rogeria curvipubens Emery, 1894
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Rogeria curvipubens Emery, 1894 View in CoL

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This neotropical species occurs on some Caribbean islands and in Central and South America ( KEMPF, 1972; KUGLER, 1994; FERNÁNDEZ & SENDOYA, 2004; HERRERA & LONGINO, 2008). Rogeria curvipubens is a cryptic species introduced to Galápagos. It was reported for the first time in the Humid Zone of Santa Cruz Island in 2008 ( HERRERA & LONGINO, 2008). However, recent revisions of museum material showed that it was also collected in the Transition Zone of San Cristóbal Island in 1992. To date, it has been found on three inhabited islands in the Galápagos archipelago and is found in human settlements and protected areas. It has been collected from leaf litter in secondary successional forest. We observed a nest of R. curvipubens under attack from Wasmannia auropunctata . This species was collected with Winkler traps and using visual searches in C. arabica planted under S. pedunculata .

References

FERNANDEZ F. & SENDOYA S., 2004. - Special issue: list of Neotropical ants. Biota Colombiana, 5: 3 - 93.

HERRERA H. W. & LONGINO J. T., 2008. - New records of introduced ants (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) in the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos Research, 65: 16 - 19.

KEMPF W., 1972. - Catalogo abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica, 15: 3 - 344.

KUGLER C., 1994. - A revision of the ant genus Rogeria with description of the sting apparatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3: 17 - 89.