Neivamyrmex maxillosus

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Neivamyrmex maxillosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Neivamyrmex
Species: N. maxillosus
Binomial name
Neivamyrmex maxillosus
(Emery, 1900)

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 3.55° to 3.55°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

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

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Holotype of Neivamyrmex maxillosusMale (alate). Specimen code casent0903741. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

  • maxillosus. Eciton maxillosum Emery, 1900a: 181, figs. 13, 14 (m.) BRAZIL (Amazonas).
    • Type-material: holotype male.
    • Type-locality: Brazil: Amazonas, Manicoré (Staudinger).
    • Type-depository: MSNG.
    • Combination in E. (Acamatus): Emery, 1900a: 187;
    • combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 6.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 26; Borgmeier, 1923: 47; Borgmeier, 1955: 350 (redescription); Kempf, 1972a: 156; Watkins, 1976: 21 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 290; Palacio, 2019: 621.
    • Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borgmeier T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3: 1-720.
  • 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.
  • Santschi F. 1911. Une nouvelle espèce d'Eciton. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 56: 113.