Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis (André) 1893
Creators: name: Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela
name: Serna, Francisco
name: Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey
name: Lattke, John
name: Rabeling, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Mycetomoellerius
Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis

description: <b>(34) <i>Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis</i> (Andre, 1893) </b>Figure 9A, B<b>Material examined.</b> COLOMBIA: <b>Magdalena •</b> 27 workers; Pivijay; 10°27′00″N, 074°36′00″W; alt. 3 m; Nov. 1985; A. Madrigal leg.; MEFLG 4272; <b>Magdalena •</b> 14 workers; Pivijay; 10°27′00″N, 074°36′00″W; alt. 3 m; May 1986; A. Madrigal leg.; MEFLG 4822. <b>Identification.</b> Antennal scapes surpass posterior corners of head by 1–2 times their maximum diameter; clypeus with row of coarse, long hairs on anterior margin; in side view, a few shorter erect hairs often present posterior to the anterior row; preocular carina relatively short, stopping at about 1/3 the distance between eye and posterior corner of head; frontal carina long, reaching back to posterior corner of head; anterolateral prome- sonotal tooth long, sharply pointed, projecting forward and upwards; propodeal teeth sharply pointed, approxi- mately as long as the distance between their bases; gas- ter strongly tuberculated, in dorsal view tubercles form four more or less distinct longitudinal ridges on first gas- tric tergite; and color dark reddish-black or gray-black, appendages and two petiolar segments usually a lighter reddish-brown (Rabeling et al. 2007). <b>Distribution.</b><i>Mycetomoellerius jamaicensis</i> was previously recorded from the Caribbean island arc, Flor- ida (USA), and Venezuela (Deyrup 2003, 2016; Jaffé and Lattke 1994; Mayhé-Nuñes and Brandão 2007; Rabeling et al. 2007). Our new record from Magdalena department in northern Colombia extends the distribution along the northern South American mainland (Fig. 1C).
description: Published as part of <i>Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John &amp; Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, pp. 1205-1227 in Check List 16 (5)</i> on page 1221, DOI: 10.15560/16.5.1205, http://zenodo.org/record/4059086
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