A preliminary checklist of soil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Colombian Amazon.

Daniel CastroFernando FernándezAndrés D MenesesMaria C TocoraStepfania SanchezClara P Peña-Venegas

Published in: Biodiversity data journal (2018)

This is the first checklist of soil ant diversity of the Colombian Amazon region. Six new records of species for Colombia are exposed: Acropyga tricuspis (LaPolla, 2004), Typhlomyrmex clavicornis (Emery, 1906), Typhlomyrmex meire (Lacau, Villemant & Delabie, 2004), Cyphomyrmex bicornis (Forel, 1895), Megalomyrmex emeryi (Forel, 1904) and Myrmicocrypta spinosa (Weber, 1937), most of them corresponding to subterranean ants.

Keyphrases

muscular dystrophy
plant growth