Azteca trailii

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Azteca trailii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Leptomyrmecini
Genus: Azteca
Species: A. trailii
Binomial name
Azteca trailii
Emery, 1893

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies
At a Glance • Ant garden  

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil (type locality), French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname.

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

Ant Gardens

This species is known to form ant gardens (i.e., they are able to initiate ant gardens or are restricted to ant gardens) (Campbell et al., 2022; Davidson, 1988 (noted as ant-garden initiator); Kleinfeldt, 1986; Marini Filho, 1999 (noted as ant-garden initiator); Orivel & Leroy, 2011; Schmit-Neuerburg & Bluthgen, 2007).

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Azteca trailiiWorker. Specimen code casent0903023. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

  • trailii. Azteca trailii Emery, 1893b: 133, pl. 1, figs. 33-36 (s.w.m.) BRAZIL (Amazonas).
    • Forel, 1904e: 692 (q.).
    • Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 109; Emery, 1896c: 6; Forel, 1904e: 692; Forel, 1906d: 239; Forel, 1912h: 50; Emery, 1913a: 34; Wheeler, W.M. 1921f: 163; Borgmeier, 1923: 95; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 242; Kempf, 1972a: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 26; Bolton, 1995b: 80.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus filicis, tillandsiarum, tococae.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Dejean A., B. Corbara, J. Orivel, R. R. Snelling, J. H. C. Delabie, and M. Belin-Depoux. 2000. The importance of ant gardens in the pioneer vegetal formations of French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 35(3): 425-439.
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1921. The Tachigalia ants. Zoologica (New York) 3: 137-168.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.