Adelomyrmex marginodus

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Adelomyrmex marginodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Adelomyrmex
Species: A. marginodus
Binomial name
Adelomyrmex marginodus
Longino, 2012

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Specimen Labels

This species is known from lowland rainforest sites, from sea level to 400 m elevation. All records are from Winkler samples of sifted litter. It is typically rare, but at one Honduran site it occurred in 17% of miniWinkler samples. (Longino 2012)

Identification

Differing from the similar Adelomyrmex longinoi in (1) more sharply differentiated anterior and dorsal face of pronotum in profile; and (2) posterior margin of postpetiole with sharp projecting transverse rim. Character differences are subtle yet consistent across a broad zone of sympatry in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. (Longino 2012)

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 18.5859972° to 13.7695434°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (type locality), Nicaragua.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0628696. Photographer Jeremy Pilllow, uploaded by University of Utah. Owned by JTLC.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • marginodus. Adelomyrmex marginodus Longino, 2012: 20, figs. 3, 16, 21 (w.q.) HONDURAS, southern MEXICO, GUATEMALA, NICARAGUA.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

HW 0.44–0.50 (n=5); mandible with differentiated masticatory and basal margins; masticatory margin with 5 teeth; basal margin sinuous with a distinct basal tooth and notch between tooth and condyle; dorsal surface of mandible with several coarse longitudinal striae and several large piligerous puncta; in full face view, lateral clypeal teeth small but still projecting from beneath clypeal shelf; lateral clypeal teeth located on anterior (ventral) margin of clypeus and separate from transverse carina that forms clypeal shelf; hypostomal tooth a minute triangular denticle; compound eye composed of 1–4 ommatidia; face coarsely reticulate rugose, with weak longitudinal orientation.

Short anterior face of pronotum meeting dorsal face at nearly right angle, separated by a low, simple transverse ruga; promesonotum evenly and very shallowly convex; metanotal groove weakly impressed; propodeal spines pronounced, triangular, acute at tip; space between propodeal spines a broad concavity without distinct dorsal and posterior faces, smooth and shiny with a moderately strong transverse ruga between propodeal spines, a few weaker rugulae above it; sculpture of dorsal promesonotum and side of mesosoma reticulate rugose like face; petiolar node relatively tall with differentiated anterior, dorsal, and posterior faces, rugose; postpetiolar node low and rounded, rugose laterally, smooth and shiny dorsally; in profile, postpetiolar node with a pronounced posteroventral rim; postpetiole in dorsal view about as long as wide, evenly rounded posteriorly; gastral dorsum smooth and shining.

Scape with abundant subdecumbent pubescence, and with two long suberect setae that are differentiated from the pubescence and project above it; clypeus and frontal carinae with long erect setae; posterior and posterolateral margins of head with long erect setae; mid and hind tibia with abundant long subdecumbent setae and 2–3 differentiated erect setae that are longer than width of tibia; in profile, dorsal surfaces of head, mesosoma, and gaster with relatively short, dense subdecumbent setae; FSH about 0.03, FSI 0.06.

Head and mesosoma red, gaster lighter yellow red.

Queen

Similar to worker except for queen-specific characters of large compound eyes, ocelli, and enlarged mesosoma with queen-typical sclerites; pronotum weakly reticulate rugose medially, coarsely reticulate rugose laterally; dorsal mesonotum smooth and shiny medially, grading into concentric rugulae peripherally; scutellum more coarsely reticulate rugose; katepisternum, anepisternum, and side of propodeum rugose, rugae somewhat more longitudinally oriented than on lateral pronotum.

Type Material

Holotype worker Honduras, Atlántida: 7 km SSW Tela, 15.72337 −87.45177 ±20 m, 190 m, 15 Jun 2010 (LLAMA Wa-C-08-2-43) [CAS, unique specimen identifier CASENT0627826]. Paratypes (workers): Honduras, Atlántida: 7 km SSW Tela, 15.72453 −87.45192 ±20 m, 190 m, 15 Jun 2010 (LLAMA Wa-C-08-2-17) [MCZC, CASENT0618409]; Honduras, Atlántida: 12km SW La Ceiba, 15.69130 −86.86076 ±20 m, 280 m, 19 Jun 2010 (LLAMA Wa-C-09-2-17) [BMNH, CASENT0627830], [EAPZ, CASENT0627831], [ECOSCE, CASENT0627832], [MZSP, CASENT0627828], [UCD, CASENT0627833], [USNM, CASENT0627829]; same data but 15.69116 −86.86075 ±20 m (LLAMA Wa-C-09-2-20) [ICN, CASENT0627834].

Etymology

Referring to the posterior rim of the postpetiole.

References

  • Longino, J.T. 2012. A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America. Zootaxa 3456, 1–35.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
  • Longino J. T. 2012. A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America. Zootaxa 3456: 1-35
  • Longino J. T. L., and M. G. Branstetter. 2018. The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants. Ecography 41: 1-12.
  • Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/