Neivamyrmex rugulosus Borgmeier, 1953

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

Neivamyrmex rugulosus Borgmeier, 1953

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: Borgmeier , 1953; Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Guanajuato; locality: Las Palomas ; verbatimElevation: 2387 m; decimalLatitude: 21.06221; decimalLongitude: -101.22733; 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

Distribution

Neivamyrmex rugulosus Borgmeier, 1953 were found foraging in the same locality as N. melanocephalus (Las Palomas, Guanajuato). This species has only been recorded for Mexico and U.S. In Mexico, records come from for the same States as N. melanocephalus . Neivamyrmex rugulosus has been reported to predate other ants, such as Trachymyrmex arizonensis and Pheidole desertorum . N. rugulosus is reported at 1500 m a.s.l. ( Snelling and Snelling 2007).