Neivamyrmex iridescens

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Neivamyrmex iridescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Neivamyrmex
Species: N. iridescens
Binomial name
Neivamyrmex iridescens
Borgmeier, 1950

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Specimen Label

This species is only known from queens and/or workers and has yet to be associated with males.

Identification

Jack Longino:

Posterior face of propodeum strongly concave, distinctly indented below a rounded juncture of dorsal and posterior faces; eye with distinct convex cornea; head smooth and with sparse small puncta, distinctly shiny; surface of body red brown with violaceous reflections.

Similar species: Neivamyrmex alfaroi.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 11.16666667° to -14.8°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana (type locality), Suriname, Venezuela.

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

Jack Longino: I know this species from two collections. I collected from a column at 1900hrs at Sirena in Corcovado National Park. Ronald Vargas, of Project ALAS, collected from a column at La Selva Biological Station.

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • iridescens. Neivamyrmex iridescens Borgmeier, 1950c: 623, figs. 1-5 (w.) GUYANA, SURINAME.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 4 paratype workers.
    • Type-locality: holotype Guyana (“British Guiana”): Oronoque River, 2°42’, 1.viii.1938, no. 621 (N.A. Weber); paratypes: 2 workers with same data, 2 workers Suriname: Courantyne River, 9.vii.1936, no. 5491 (N.A. Weber).
    • Type-depositories: MZSP (holotype); MCZC, MZSP (paratypes) (perhaps also AMNH).
    • Status as species: Borgmeier, 1955: 540 (redescription); Kempf, 1972a: 155; Watkins, 1976: 13 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 289; DuBois, 1998a: 138 (material in copal); Palacio, 1999: 155 (in key); Palacio, 2019: 621.
    • Distribution: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Venezuela.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Boer P. 2019. Ants of Curacao, species list. Accessed on January 22 2019 at http://www.nlmieren.nl/websitepages/SPECIES%20LIST%20CURACAO.html
  • Borgmeier T. 1953. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der neotropischen Wanderameisen. Studia Entomologica 2: 1-51.
  • Borgmeier T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3: 1-720.
  • Dominguez D. F., M. Bustamante, R. Albuja, A. Castro, J. E. Lattke, and D. A. Donoso. 2016. Codigos de barras (COI barcodes) para hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de los bosques secos del sur del Ecuador. Ecosistemas 25(2): 76-78.
  • Esteves F. A., C. R. F. Brandao, and L. P. Prado. 2011. The type specimens of Dorylomorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae: Aenictinae, Ecitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Leptanilloidinae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 51(22): 341-397.
  • Fernández F., and E. E. Palacio. 1995. Hormigas de Colombia IV: nuevos registros de géneros y especies. Caldasia 17: 587-596.
  • 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.
  • Groc S., J. H. C. Delabie, F. Fernandez, F. Petitclerc, B. Corbara, M. Leponce, R. Cereghino, and A. Dejean. 2017. Litter-dwelling ants as bioindicators to gauge the sustainability of small arboreal monocultures embedded in the Amazonian rainforest. Ecological Indicators 82: 43-49.
  • Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
  • Lattke J. E., and M. Velez, and N. Aguirre. 2016. Survey of ants in dry forests of Southwestern Ecuador (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 63(3): 909-918.
  • O'Donnell S., J. Lattke, S. Powell, and M. Kaspari. 2007. Army ants in four forests: geographic variation in raid rates and species composition. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 580-589.
  • Rodriguez E. R., and J. E. Lattke. 2012. Diversidad de hormigas en un gradiente altitudinal de la cordillera de la Costa, Venezuela. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.) 50: 295?304.
  • Watkins J. F., II 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 102 pp