Fernández, Fernando
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Curator of ants and other Hymenoptera Aculeata at the Insect Collection, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
- Requests for help or cooperation
- Ants of Adelomyrmex, Allomerus and Brachymyrmex, best in pure ethanol. Males of Brachymyrmex, Myrmelachista and any genus near to Plagiolepis.
- Collection sites
- Colombia: Magdalena:Zambrano - dry forest on Magdalena rivers. Colombia: Meta: La Macarena - gallery forest, savannas and agro-ecosystems in north eastern Macarena Reserve. Amazonas: Hamacayacu Park - rain forest near Amazonas River. Colombia: Chocó: Riosucio - very humid rain forest near Atrato River.
- Current Projects.
Taxonomy of Allomerus ants. Systematics of Brachymyrmex and other plagiolepidines (with Claudia Ortiz). Phylogeny of Adelomyrmecini (with Roberto Guerrero). New keys to Neotropical ant genera (with Rodrigo Feitosa).
- Addres
Fernando Fernández Profesor Asociado Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Apartado 7495 Bogotá D.C. COLOMBIA ffernandezca@unal.edu.co ffernandezca@bt.unal.edu.co
PUBLICATIONS
- Cuezzo, F. and Fernandez, F. 2015. A remarkable new dimorphic species of Solenopsis from Argentina. Sociobiology. 62:187-191. / doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v62i2.187-191
- Fernández, F. 2003d. In Fernández, F. (ed.). Introducción a las hormigas de la región Neotropical: 424 pp. Bogota, Colombia. part 9; part 21; part 22; part 27; part 28; list of species.
- Fernández, F. 2008. "Sistemática dos Himenópteros sociais na Regiao Neotropical" Insetos Sociais: Da Biología A Aplicacao, pp. 174-195 En: Colombia (ISBN: 978-85-7269-322-6).
- Fernández, F., Baena, M.L. & Palacio, E.E. 1996. Hormigas de Colombia V: el género Stenamma Westwood. Tacaya 5: 9-10.
- Fernández, F., Fiorentino, G., Castro, D. 2023. A new species of Typhlomyrmex from Colombia, re-description of the worker of T. clavicornis Emery, description of the worker of T. prolatus Brown, and key of known species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, 579–597 (doi:10.3897/jhr.96.103219).
- Fernández, F.; Mackay, W. P. 2003. Myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex laevigatus species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41: 593-604
- Fernández, F., Palacio, E.E. 1999. Lenomyrmex, an enigmatic new ant genus from the Neotropical region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Systematic Entomology 24: 7-16 (doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00063.x).
- Fernandes, I.O., Delabie, J.H.C., Fernández, F. 2019. Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Proceratium Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) in the New World. Sociobiology 66(4): 551-559 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v66i4.4484).
- Fernandes, I.O., Souza, J.L.P., Fernández, F., Delabie, J.H.C. and Schultz, T.R. 2015. A new species of Simopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Brazil and Costa Rica. Zootaxa. 3956:295–300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.10
- Mackay, W. P.; López-Castro, C.; Fernández, F. 2002. A new, high altitude Colombian species of the ant genus Camponotus with dimorphic males and females (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 40: 421-430