Cephalotes scutulatus (Smith F., 1867)

Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J., Rosas-Mejia, Madai, Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica & Janda, Milan, 2021, New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60630-60630 : 60630

Cephalotes scutulatus (Smith F., 1867)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Cephalotes ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith F., 1867); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Puebla; locality: Yohualichan ; verbatimElevation: 615 m; decimalLatitude: 20.061324; decimalLongitude: -97.503212; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2016; month: 7; day: 4; habitat: induced grassland

Distribution

Cephalotes scutulatus (Smith F., 1867) have a known distribution that goes all the way from Colombia to the State of Texas in the U.S. In Mexico, they are recorded from several States, some of which border the State of Puebla. This solitary ant was found foraging on a tree in the archaeological zone of Yohualichan, Puebla, at 21.36 ºC of amt and 172.25 mm/cm2 of amp.