DOCSLIB.ORG

Sociobiology 63(2): 735-743 (June, 2016) DOI: 10.13102/Sociobiology.V63i2.824

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Sociobiology 63(2): 735-743 (June, 2016) DOI: 10.13102/Sociobiology.V63i2.824 Sociobiology 63(2): 735-743 (June, 2016) DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v63i2.824 Sociobiology An international journal on social insects RESEARCH ARTICLE - ANTS Ant community (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) associated with Callisthene fasciculata (Spr.) Mart. (Vochysiaceae) canopies in the Pantanal of Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil L Yamazaki1, J Dambros1, E Meurer2, VF Vindica1, JHC Delabie3, MI Marques2, LD Battirola1 1 - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Sinop-MT, Brazil 2 - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá-MT, Brazil 3 - Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus-BA, Brazil Article History Abstract Ants act in different trophic levels and are important due to their abundance, Edited by distribution and diversity in a variety of habitats, exercising influence on many Kleber Del-Claro, UFU, Brazil Received 14 July 2015 different organisms and ecosystems. Thus, this study compared temporal variation Initial acceptance 01 March 2016 on the structure and composition of the ant community in canopies of Callisthene Final acceptance 09 May 2016 fasciculata (Spr.) Mart. (Vochysiaceae) during high water and dry periods, in the Publication date 15 July 2016 Pantanal of Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Ant sampling was performed on 12 specimens of C. fasciculata, in 2010 and 2011, using canopy fogging with insecticide, in Keywords Biodiversity, canopy, temporality, mono- a total of 120m² of sampled canopy. Altogether, 2,958 ants were collected. The 2,943 dominance. adults were distributed in four subfamilies, 12 genus and 26 species. Myrmicinae (18.7 ind./m2) was the most representative taxon, followed by Formicinae (3.2 Corresponding author ind./m2), Dolichoderinae (2.2 ind./m2) and Pseudomyrmecinae (0.3 ind./m2). The Lúcia Yamazaki community is made up of six trophic groups, in which omnivorous (23.5 ind./m2) Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso were the most prevalent, followed by minimum hypogeical generalists (0.5 ind./m2) Campus Universitário de Sinop 2 Sinop-MT, Brazil and arboreal generalist predators (0.3 ind./m ). Although the results showed that E-Mail: [email protected] ant community richness, associated to C. fasciculata canopies, does not represent a significant difference among the seasonal periods, there are differences as to species distribution on the host plant over the seasonal periods, indicating the influence of temporal variation, and therefore, habitat conditions on this community. Introduction Among the arthropods, Formicidae is an important component of the communities inhabiting the tree layer of The forest canopy is responsible for mechanisms that tropical forests, using same as habitat, foraging area and regulate key processes in ecosystems (Basset et al., 2002), nesting (Corrêa et al., 2006). This association also allows such as high primary productivity (Lowman & Nadkarni, plants to benefit because the ants provide materials which 1995). This productivity makes a high variety of resources are rich in nitrogen, food waste and useful metabolic waste possible, especially food, for different taxa, including arthropods to plants (Delabie et al., 2003), as well as reducing herbivory (Novotny et al., 2002a,b), which represent the most abundant activity by organisms that feed on these plants, influencing the and diverse taxon associated with tropical forest canopies in all structuring of the communities in these habitats (Hölldobler regions of the world (Stork & Grimbacher, 2006). In this way, & Wilson, 1990). tree canopies are characterized as a diverse environment and Ants are predators and herbivores which are significant of considerable importance due to nutrient cycling processes in many habitats, mainly due to their abundance, omnipresence and the ecological interactions among the species that live in and diversity (Fowler et al., 1990; Kaspari, 2003). In tropical them (Adis, 1997; Adis et al., 2010). forests, seasonality is a factor that determines the structure of Open access journal: http://periodicos.uefs.br/ojs/index.php/sociobiology ISSN: 0361-6525 736 L Yamazaki et al. – Ant community associated with Callisthene fasciculata canopies their communities (Simberloff & Dayan, 1991). The majority (1m² in diameter each), distributed according to the scope of the species appear to be opportunistic foragers, feeding on and architecture of the canopy, totaling 120m2 of sample area nectar, seeds, leaves and live or dead animals, while some (10m² per sampled tree). At the base of each collecting funnel may be specialized in their feeding habits (Kaspari, 2003). a plastic bottle collector was installed with 92% alcohol which Studies carried out in the Pantanal have demonstrated remained suspended at about 1m from the ground by means that ants are an important component of the arthropods of cords tied to surrounding trees. During the high water period communities, participating in ecological processes, developing funnels were suspended at 1.5m above the soil due to flooding different survival strategies and social behaviors in these areas of part of the forest (water depth ranging between 0.1 and 0.3m). (Adis et al., 2001; Battirola et al., 2005; Castilho et al., 2007; The fogging procedure was carried out for ten minutes Santos et al., 2008; Marques et al., 2010, 2011; Soares et al., on each tree, using the synthetic pyrethroid Lambda-Cyhalothrin 2013). Considering the importance of conserving wetlands (Icon®) at 0.5%, diluted in two liters of diesel at a concentration for the maintenance of biological diversity and the role played of 1% (20ml), associated with the synergist (DDVP) 0.1% by this taxon in food chains associated with these habitats, (2ml). The fogging used was the Swingfog SN50 model, this study evaluated the temporal variation in the structure which produces a strong jet of smoke that is directed from and composition of the ant community in the canopy of the ground to all parts of the canopy. These procedures took Callisthene fasciculata (Spr.) Mart. (Vochysiaceae), during place, always, around 6:00am when the air circulation is less periods of high water and dry season in the Pantanal of intense, allowing the insecticide cloud to rise slowly through Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. the canopy and not disperse. In each sampled tree a fogging and a collection took place. The collection was carried out two Material and Methods hours after application of the insecticide, the recommended time for its action on arthropods (Adis et al., 1998), when Study area the walls of the funnels were manually shaken and washed Samples were collected in the Pantanal of Poconé, with the aid of sprayers containing alcohol at 92% so that the specifically on the Fazenda Alvorada (16°26’S and 56°24’W), material could be gathered from the existing collector bottles Porto Cercado Road, in Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The at the basis of the hoppers. local climate is characterized as Aw, according to the Köppen classification. This region has well defined seasons, with the Laboratory Procedures rainy season between October and March, and the dry season All the material coming from the samples was transported between April and September, defining its water cycle in four to the Acervo Biológico da Amazônia Meridional (ABAM) of distinct seasonal periods (high water, receding water, dry and the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Sinop - MT. Here all rising water) (Heckman, 1998). the ants were quantified and identified according to Fernández The samples were obtained in a monodominant, seasonally (2003a,b) and Bolton (2003, 2014). Then the ants were flooded forest, with predominance of C. fasciculata, locally compared with the reference collection from the Laboratório de known as “carvoal”, which can reach 4 to 15m in height Ecologia e Taxonomia de Artrópodes (LETA) of the Instituto when mature and has dark, thick and rough bark (Pott & de Biociências of the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso in Pott, 1994). The flowering period is between September and Cuiabá, MT. The determination of trophic guilds was carried October, occurring together with seed dispersal generated in out according to Rojas and Fragoso (2000), Silvestre et al. the previous year (Custódio et al., 2014). It is a tree that is (2003) and Brandão et al. (2009) and the material is deposited characterized as deciduous and with dormancy absent during in the ABAM/UFMT/Sinop Entomological Collection. the rising water season until the beginning of the dry season, partial dormancy in the dry season until the beginning of the Data Analysis rising water season, and total dormancy at the end of the dry season (Corsini & Guarim-Neto, 2000). The estimate for species richness was evaluated by Bootstrap and Jackknife 1 estimators. Richness comparison Field Procedures between periods of high water level and dry was carried out using the t test. To assess the composition of species and guilds Insecticide was applied by way of fogging on 12 C. between the periods of high water and dry indirect sorting fasciculata canopies in the high water season (tree numbers was carried out by Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling 1-6) and in the dry season (tree numbers 7-12), in 2010 and (NMDS) using one axis for analysis. The sorting was carried 2011, respectively. In each seasonal period six individual out using quantitative data and the Bray-Curtis similarity C. fasciculata were randomly selected keeping a minimum measure. The Vegan (Oksanen et al., 2013) package was used distance of 10m between each sample according to Adis et al. for NMDS analysis and richness estimates, and all analyzes (1998) and Battirola et al. (2004). Initially, the entire diameter were performed using the R software, version 3.0.1 (R Core at the base of these trees was surrounded by nylon funnels Team, 2013). Sociobiology 63(2): 735-743 (June, 2016) 737 Results Community composition A total of 2,958 ants was collected in C. fasciculata canopies during the high water and dry periods in the Pantanal of Poconé, Mato Grosso, with a density of 24.6 ind./m2. Of these individuals, 2,943 (99.5%; 24.5 ind./m2) are adults, and only 15 (0.5%; 0.1 ind./m2) are immature (larvae).
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Check List 8(4): 722–730, 2012 © 2012 Check List and Authors Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (Available at Journal of Species Lists and Distribution
    Check List 8(4): 722–730, 2012 © 2012 Check List and Authors Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br) Journal of species lists and distribution Check list of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: PECIES S Formicidae) of the eastern Acre, Amazon, Brazil OF Patrícia Nakayama Miranda 1,2*, Marco Antônio Oliveira 3, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro 4, Elder Ferreira ISTS 1 5,6 L Morato and Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie 1 Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza. BR 364 – Km 4 – Distrito Industrial. CEP 69915-900. Rio Branco, AC, Brazil. 2 Instituo Federal do Acre, Campus Rio Branco. Avenida Brasil 920, Bairro Xavier Maia. CEP 69903-062. Rio Branco, AC, Brazil. 3 Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal. Rodovia LMG 818, Km 6. CEP 35690-000. Florestal, MG, Brazil. 4 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia. CP 478. CEP 69083-670. Manaus, AM, Brazil. 5 Comissão Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira, Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, Laboratório de Mirmecologia – CEPEC/CEPLAC. Caixa Postal 07. CEP 45600-970. Itabuna, BA, Brazil. 6 Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz. CEP 45650-000. Ilhéus, BA, Brazil. * Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: The ant fauna of state of Acre, Brazilian Amazon, is poorly known. The aim of this study was to compile the species sampled in different areas in the State of Acre. An inventory was carried out in pristine forest in the municipality of Xapuri. This list was complemented with the information of a previous inventory carried out in a forest fragment in the municipality of Senador Guiomard and with a list of species deposited at the Entomological Collection of National Institute of Amazonian Research– INPA.
    [Show full text]
  • Differential Effects of Land Use on Ant and Herbivore Insect Communities Associated with Caryocar Brasiliense (Caryocaraceae)
    Differential effects of land use on ant and herbivore insect communities associated with Caryocar brasiliense (Caryocaraceae) Frederico S. Neves1,2*, Rodrigo F. Braga1, Lucimar S. Araújo1, Ricardo I. Campos3 & Marcílio Fagundes1 1. Laboratório de Biologia da Conservação, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes claros, MG, Brasil; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2. Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil; [email protected] 3. Laboratório de Ecologia de Formigas,Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brasil; [email protected] * Corresponding author Received 03-VIII-2011. Corrected 08-II-2012. Accepted 09-III-2012. Abstract: Simplification of natural habitats leads to a modification of the community associated with a host plant. Pequi trees (Caryocar brasiliense) are common to find in central Brazil, especially in the middle of mono- cultures, such as soy, corn, pasturelands or Eucalyptus plantations. On this scenario we hypothesized that habitat modification differentially affects the diversity of ants and herbivore insects associated with this species. The aim of the work was to test if C. brasiliense trees located in human modified habitats, support a lower species richness and abundance of ants, and a greater species richness and abundance of insect herbivores, compared to preserved cerrado habitats. The study was conducted in a Cerrado area located in Northern Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Ants and herbivore insects were collected monthly during 2005 using beating technique. The results showed that ant species richness was higher in pequi trees located in preserved Cerrado, followed by trees in pastureland and Eucalyptus plantation, respectively.
    [Show full text]
  • No Pantanal De Mato Grosso, Brasil
    UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MATO GROSSO CAMPUS UNIVERSITÁRIO DE SINOP Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais ARTRÓPODES EM COPAS DE Callisthene fasciculata (SPR.) MART. (VOCHYSIACEAE) NO PANTANAL DE MATO GROSSO, BRASIL LÚCIA YAMAZAKI Sinop, Mato Grosso Fevereiro, 2015 i LÚCIA YAMAZAKI ARTRÓPODES EM COPAS DE Callisthene fasciculata (SPR.) MART. (VOCHYSIACEAE) NO PANTANAL DE MATO GROSSO, BRASIL ORIENTADOR: PROF. DR. LEANDRO D. BATTIROLA Co-orientadora: Profa. Dra. Marinêz I. Marques Dissertação apresentada ao PPGCAM como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de Mestre em Ciências Ambientais. Sinop, Mato Grosso Fevereiro, 2015 ii iii iv Sinopse: Estudou-se a influência da variação temporal (seca e cheia) sobre a estrutura e a composição da comunidade de artrópodes em copas de Callisthene fasciculata (Spr.) Mart. (Vochysiaceae) na região norte do Pantanal de Mato Grosso, Brasil. Apresenta-se a descrição da estrutura e composição da comunidade de artrópodes em geral, Coleoptera, Formicidae e Araneae, além da possível estratégia de migração de Tityus paraguayensis Kraepelin, 1895 (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Palavras-chave: Áreas úmidas, Biodiversidade, Monodominância, Termonebulização. v Dedicatória Aos meus pais Kaoru Yamazaki e Antonia Haico Yamazaki que não mediram esforços para eu concluir mais uma etapa em minha vida. Ao meu filho amado, Gustavo Yamazaki Moreira, que me traz muitas alegrias em todos os dias desde a sua existência. vi Agradecimentos A todos que de alguma forma contribuíram para a realização deste trabalho, em especial: Aos meus pais Kaoru Yamazaki e Antonia Haico Yamazaki que em todos os momentos me incentivaram, apoiaram e me fizeram perceber o quanto a capacitação profissional é importante para qualquer pessoa.
    [Show full text]
  • Composição Da Assembleia De Formigas Em Três Fitofisionomias Do Parque Estadual Do Ibitipoca – Mg
    Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas Mestrado em Comportamento e Biologia Animal Noelle Martins dos Reis Hallack COMPOSIÇÃO DA ASSEMBLEIA DE FORMIGAS EM TRÊS FITOFISIONOMIAS DO PARQUE ESTADUAL DO IBITIPOCA – MG Juiz de Fora 2010 Noelle Martins dos Reis Hallack COMPOSIÇÃO DA ASSEMBLEIA DE FORMIGAS EM TRÊS FITOFISIONOMIAS DO PARQUE ESTADUAL DO IBITIPOCA – MG Dissertação apresentada ao Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do Título de Mestre em Ciências Biológicas (Área de concentração em Comportamento e Biologia Animal). Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Juliane Floriano Lopes Santos Juiz de Fora 2010 Noelle Martins dos Reis Hallack COMPOSIÇÃO DA ASSEMBLEIA DE FORMIGAS EM TRÊS FITOFISIONOMIAS DO PARQUE ESTADUAL DO IBITIPOCA – MG Dissertação apresentada ao Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do Título de Mestre em Ciências Biológicas (Área de concentração em Comportamento e Biologia Animal). Aprovada em 31 de maio de 2010. BANCA EXAMINADORA Dr. Marcelo Dias Müller Embrapa Gado de Leite – Juiz de Fora Dr. Fábio Prezoto Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – MG Dra. Juliane Floriano Lopes Santos Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – MG À minha amada Lania, que se foi, e ao meu pequeno Theo, que chegou. AGRADECIMENTOS A Deus, o único responsável por tornar tudo isso possível. A minha orientadora Juliane Floriano Lopes Santos pela ajuda incansável, pela dedicação e confiança, pela paciência e principalmente pela grande amizade construída ao longo deste trabalho. Você sempre me ensinou muito, e muito além da ciência.
    [Show full text]
  • Ant Diversity Studies in Acre
    Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Cienc. Nat., Belém, v. 15, n. 1, p. 113-134, jan.-abr. 2020 Ant diversity studies in Acre: what we know and what we could do to know more? Estudos de diversidade de formigas no Acre: o que sabemos e o que devemos fazer para saber mais? Fernando Augusto SchmidtI | Marília Maria Silva da CostaI, II | Felipe MartelloI | Amanda Batista de OliveiraIII | Andressa Silvana MenezesI | Luane Karoline FonteneleII | Elder Ferreira MoratoI | Marco Antônio OliveiraIV IUniversidade Federal do Acre. Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil IIUniversidade Federal de Lavras. Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil IIIUniversidade Federal do Amazonas. Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil IVUniversidade Federal de Viçosa. Florestal, Minais Gerais, Brasil Abstract: Brazil counts with one the largest ant diversity in the world. But, given its continental dimension and uneven scientific development process, there are still several gaps in the knowledge of this biodiversity. This fully applies to research on ant diversity in the state of Acre, southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Since 2014, in Acre, ants are being sampled by Rede BIA project, which aims to cover this gap. Thus, our main goal is to present the status of ant diversity studies in Acre regarding their progress and their contribution to the ant fauna knowledge, based on scientific papers and grey literature. We found 17 studies to Acre, which encompass a time range of 10 years, and a total of 338 species recorded. The studies are concentrated mainly in the southern and eastern parts of the state. Ground pitfall trap is the most used sampling technique. We point out that adding more sites to Rede BIA’s collecting efforts, plus focusing samplings in poorly studied habitats and ecosystems, especially in the western and eastern parts of the state will provide a lot of new data on ant species occurrence to Acre and to Brazil.
    [Show full text]
  • Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
    Zootaxa 1622: 1–55 (2007) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2007 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ALEXANDER L. WILD Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Table of contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................................1 Material and methods ..........................................................................................................................................................4 Results .................................................................................................................................................................................8 Discussion ...........................................................................................................................................................................9 Acknowledgements ...........................................................................................................................................................11 Literature cited ..................................................................................................................................................................11
    [Show full text]
  • Plant-Arthropod Interactions: a Behavioral Approach
    Psyche Plant-Arthropod Interactions: A Behavioral Approach Guest Editors: Kleber Del-Claro, Monique Johnson, and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi Plant-Arthropod Interactions: A Behavioral Approach Psyche Plant-Arthropod Interactions: A Behavioral Approach Guest Editors: Kleber Del-Claro, Monique Johnson, and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi Copyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Psyche.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Toshiharu Akino, Japan Lawrence G. Harshman, USA Lynn M. Riddiford, USA Sandra Allan, USA Abraham Hefetz, Israel S. K. A. Robson, Australia Arthur G. Appel, USA John Heraty, USA C. Rodriguez-Saona, USA Michel Baguette, France Richard James Hopkins, Sweden Gregg Roman, USA Donald Barnard, USA Fuminori Ito, Japan David Roubik, USA Rosa Barrio, Spain DavidG.James,USA Leopoldo M. Rueda, USA David T. Bilton, UK Bjarte H. Jordal, Norway Bertrand Schatz, France Guy Bloch, Israel Russell Jurenka, USA Sonja J. Scheffer, USA Anna-karin Borg-karlson, Sweden Debapratim Kar Chowdhuri, India Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, USA M. D. Breed, USA Jan Klimaszewski, Canada Nicolas Schtickzelle, Belgium Grzegorz Buczkowski, USA Shigeyuki Koshikawa, USA Kent S. Shelby, USA Rita Cervo, Italy Vladimir Kostal, Czech Republic Toru Shimada, Japan In Sik Chung, Republic of Korea Opender Koul, India Dewayne Shoemaker, USA C. Claudianos, Australia Ai-Ping Liang, China Chelsea T. Smartt, USA David Bruce Conn, USA Paul Linser, USA Pradya Somboon, Thailand J. Corley, Argentina Nathan Lo, Australia George J. Stathas, Greece Leonardo Dapporto, Italy Jean N.
    [Show full text]
  • V. 15 N. 1 Janeiro/Abril De 2020
    v. 15 n. 1 janeiro/abril de 2020 Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais v. 15, n. 1 janeiro-abril 2020 BOLETIM DO MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI. CIÊNCIAS NATURAIS (ISSN 2317-6237) O Boletim do Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnographia foi criado por Emílio Goeldi e o primeiro fascículo surgiu em 1894. O atual Boletim é sucedâneo daquele. IMAGEM DA CAPA Elaborada por Rony Peterson The Boletim do Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnographia was created by Santos Almeida e Lívia Pires Emilio Goeldi, and the first number was issued in 1894. The present one is the do Prado. successor to this publication. EDITOR CIENTÍFICO Fernando da Silva Carvalho Filho EDITORES DO NÚMERO ESPECIAL Lívia Pires do Prado Rony Peterson Santos Almeida EDITORES ASSOCIADOS Adriano Oliveira Maciel Alexandra Maria Ramos Bezerra Aluísio José Fernandes Júnior Débora Rodrigues de Souza Campana José Nazareno Araújo dos Santos Junior Valéria Juliete da Silva William Leslie Overal CONSELHO EDITORIAL CIENTÍFICO Ana Maria Giulietti - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana - Feira de Santana - Brasil Augusto Shinya Abe - Universidade Estadual Paulista - Rio Claro - Brasil Carlos Afonso Nobre - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - São José dos Campos - Brasil Douglas C. Daly - New York Botanical Garden - New York - USA Hans ter Steege - Utrecht University - Utrecht - Netherlands Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Belém - Brasil John Bates - Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago - USA José Maria Cardoso da
    [Show full text]
  • Synonymic List of Neotropical Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
    BIOTA COLOMBIANA Special Issue: List of Neotropical Ants Número monográfico: Lista de las hormigas neotropicales Fernando Fernández Sebastián Sendoya Volumen 5 - Número 1 (monográfico), Junio de 2004 Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Biota Colombiana 5 (1) 3 -105, 2004 Synonymic list of Neotropical ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Fernando Fernández1 and Sebastián Sendoya2 1Profesor Asociado, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, AA 7495, Bogotá D.C, Colombia. [email protected] 2 Programa de Becas ABC, Sistema de Información en Biodiversidad y Proyecto Atlas de la Biodiversidad de Colombia, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. [email protected] Key words: Formicidae, Ants, Taxa list, Neotropical Region, Synopsis Introduction Ant Phylogeny Ants are conspicuous and dominant all over the All ants belong to the family Formicidae, in the superfamily globe. Their diversity and abundance both peak in the tro- Vespoidea, within the order Hymenoptera. The most widely pical regions of the world and gradually decline towards accepted phylogentic schemes for the superfamily temperate latitudes. Nonetheless, certain species such as Vespoidea place the ants as a sister group to Vespidae + Formica can be locally abundant in some temperate Scoliidae (Brother & Carpenter 1993; Brothers 1999). countries. In the tropical and subtropical regions numerous Numerous studies have demonstrated the monophyletic species have been described, but many more remain to be nature of ants (Bolton 1994, 2003; Fernández 2003). Among discovered. Multiple studies have shown that ants represent the most widely accepted characters used to define ants as a high percentage of the biomass and individual count in a group are the presence of a metapleural gland in females canopy forests.
    [Show full text]
  • First Standardized Inventory of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Natural Grasslands of Paraná: New Records for Southern Brazil
    First standardized inventory of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the natural grasslands of Paraná: New records for Southern Brazil Weslly Franco¹² & Rodrigo Machado Feitosa¹³ ¹ Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Departamento de Zoologia (DZOO), Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Formigas (LSBF). Curitiba, PR, Brasil. ² ORCID: 0000-0003-2670-4527. E-mail: [email protected] (corresponding author) ³ ORCID: 0000-0001-9042-0129. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Despite the large number of studies investigating ant diversity in Brazilian biomes, no ant-related studies have been carried out in Campos Gerais, a grassland physiognomy in Paraná state. The present study is the first inventory of the ant fauna in one of the few conservation units protecting the Campos Gerais landscape, the Guartelá State Park (PEG). Sixty samples were collected from different habitats within PEG using pitfall traps. Qualitative samples of leaf litter were collected from forest frag- ments and submitted to Winkler extractors. In addition, manual qualitative sampling was carried out in the various physiogno- mies within the PEG. A total of 163 species was collected and sorted into 43 genera and nine subfamilies. Five genera and 28 species were recorded for the first time in the state of Paraná. Out of these, 17 species were also recorded for the first time in the Southern Region of Brazil and two were recorded for the first time to the country. The significant species richness in the PEG and the high number of new records is a strong sign of this ecosystem’s potential to reveal taxonomic novelties. These results suggest that PEG, and the Campos Gerais as a whole, should be the target of greater conservation efforts to preserve native remnants.
    [Show full text]
  • A Checklist of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru
    Zootaxa 4020 (1): 101–133 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.4 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6434A085-0132-42E9-B1F6-77F0336E0BEF A checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru KLÁRA BEZDĚČKOVÁ1, PAVEL BEZDĚČKA1 & IVO MACHAR2 1Museum of Highlands Jihlava, Masarykovo nám. 55, CZ-586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 2Palacky University, Faculty of Science, Department of Development Studies, Tr. 17. listopadu 12, CZ-771 46 Olomouc, Czech Repub- lic. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The article presents a comprehensive list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru. Distribution data for 592 valid names of species-group taxa in 76 genera and 12 subfamilies were collected through a bibliographical review. The most diverse subfamilies in terms of species richness are Myrmicinae (273 species/subspecies), Formicinae (86 species/subspe- cies) and Ponerinae (71 species/subspecies). The most diverse genera are Pheidole (86 species/subspecies), Camponotus (73 species/subspecies), and Pseudomyrmex (47 species/subspecies). With respect to geographic divisions, richness is highest in Madre de Dios (245 species/subspecies), followed by Huanuco (109 species/subspecies) and Cusco (104 spe- cies/subspecies). Regions in greatest need of additional survey work are Aycucho, Huancavelica, Moquegua and Tacna, from which virtually no information on the ant fauna is available. Key words: list, ant fauna, Republic of Peru, Neotropical region Introduction Peru is one of the countries with the highest biodiversity on the planet (Reynel et al.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Special Issue
    Psyche Advances in Neotropical Myrmecology Guest Editors: Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Fernando Fernández, and Jonathan Majer Advances in Neotropical Myrmecology Psyche Advances in Neotropical Myrmecology Guest Editors: Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Fernando Fernandez,´ and Jonathan Majer Copyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Psyche.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Arthur G. Appel, USA John Heraty, USA Mary Rankin, USA Guy Bloch, Israel DavidG.James,USA David Roubik, USA D. Bruce Conn, USA Russell Jurenka, USA Coby Schal, USA G. B. Dunphy, Canada Bethia King, USA James Traniello, USA JayD.Evans,USA Ai-Ping Liang, China Martin H. Villet, South Africa Brian Forschler, USA Robert Matthews, USA William T. Wcislo, Panama Howard S. Ginsberg, USA Donald Mullins, USA DianaE.Wheeler,USA Abraham Hefetz, Israel Subba Reddy Palli, USA Contents Advances in Neotropical Myrmecology, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Fernando Fernandez,´ and Jonathan Majer Volume 2012, Article ID 286273, 3 pages Tatuidris kapasi sp. nov.: A New Armadillo Ant from French Guiana (Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), Sebastien´ Lacau, Sarah Groc, Alain Dejean, Muriel L. de Oliveira, and Jacques H. C. Delabie Volume 2012, Article ID 926089, 6 pages Ants as Indicators in Brazil: A Review with Suggestions
    [Show full text]