Neivamyrmex melanocephalus (Emery, 1895)

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e60630

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scientific name

Neivamyrmex melanocephalus (Emery, 1895)
status

 

Neivamyrmex melanocephalus (Emery, 1895)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Neivamyrmex ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1895); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Guanajuato; locality: Las Palomas ; verbatimElevation: 2405 m; decimalLatitude: 21.0684; decimalLongitude: -101.22427; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2016; month: 10; day: 1; habitat: oak Forest GoogleMaps GoogleMaps

Distribution

Neivamyrmex melanocephalus (Emery, 1895) were found in an oak forest in Las Palomas, Guanajuato at 15.3 ºC of amt and 60.4 mm/cm2 of amp. Neivamyrmex melanocephalus has been previously recorded in Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala Mexico and U.S. ( Guénard et al. 2017). This species has been recorded in Michoacán de Ocampo, Jalisco and Queretaro, States that border Guanajuato, where we are reporting for the first time their presence.

Biology

As many members from the subfamily Dorylinae , N. melanocephalus forms foraging raids attacking a variety of small arthropods ( Snelling and Snelling 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Neivamyrmex