Azteca angusticeps
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| Azteca angusticeps | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Azteca |
| Species: | A. angusticeps |
| Binomial name | |
| Azteca angusticeps Emery, 1893
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Contents
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil (type locality), Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
All known Azteca species are arboreal, nesting in living or dead wood, or external carton nests. Some species exhibit obligate associations with myrmecophytes, especially of the genus Cecropia (see Chapter 14 of The Ants). Feeding habits are generalized with foraging occurring both arboreally and on the ground.
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- angusticeps. Azteca angusticeps Emery, 1893b: 144, pl. 2, figs. 66-71 (s.w.q.) BRAZIL (Amazonas).
- Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 109; Emery, 1913a: 32; Mann, 1916: 471; Borgmeier, 1923: 89; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 224; Kempf, 1972a: 30; Shattuck, 1994: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 78.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1893l. Studio monografico sul genere Azteca Forel. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)3:119-152 (page 144, pl. 2, figs. 66-71 soldier, worker, queen described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
- Longino, J.T. 2010. Personal Communication. Longino Collection Database
- Wheeler W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262.
