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. 2018 Nov 7:(6):e29278.
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e29278. eCollection 2018.

A preliminary checklist of soil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Colombian Amazon

Daniel Castro  1 , Fernando Fernández  2 , Andrés D Meneses  2 , Maria C Tocora  2 , Stepfania Sanchez  2 , Clara P Peña-Venegas  1
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A preliminary checklist of soil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Colombian Amazon

Daniel Castro et al. Biodivers Data J. .

Abstract

Background: This paper presents an updated list of soil ants of the Colombian Amazon collected in three different river basins: the Amazon, the Caquetá and the Putumayo. The list includes 10 subfamilies, 60 genera and 218 species collected from TSBF monoliths at four different depths (Litter, 0 - 10 cm, 10 - 20 cm and 20 - 30 cm). This updated list increases considerably the knowledge of edaphic macrofauna of the region, due to the limited published information about soil ant diversity in the Colombian Amazon region.

New information: This is the first checklist of soil ant diversity of the Colombian Amazon region. Six new records of species for Colombia are exposed: Acropyga tricuspis (LaPolla, 2004), Typhlomyrmex clavicornis (Emery, 1906), Typhlomyrmex meire (Lacau, Villemant & Delabie, 2004), Cyphomyrmex bicornis (Forel, 1895), Megalomyrmex emeryi (Forel, 1904) and Myrmicocrypta spinosa (Weber, 1937), most of them corresponding to subterranean ants.

Keywords: Amazon basin; TSBF; biogeography; soil macrofauna; species distribution..

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