Dolichoderus rugosus
Creators: name: Arredondo, Brandon S.
name: Carreño-Guevara, Yennifer
name: Gutierrez-Villanueva, Yenifer
name: Duran-Bautista, Ervin Humprey
name: Gamboa-Tabares, Jean
name: Guerrero, Roberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Dolichoderus
Dolichoderus rugosus

description: Dolichoderus rugosus (Smith, 1858)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061174; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: D3CDDED9-C277-59B2-9424-D334DFFC9313; Taxon: scientificName: Dolichoderus rugosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Dolichoderus; specificEpithet: rugosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith, 1858); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. La Paz, Fca. El Mirador; verbatimElevation: 590 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'48.1"N 75°38'33.3"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-02-22; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061178; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 1E152BB3-7CF8-5F4B-85BD-641F83A095A4; Taxon: scientificName: Dolichoderus rugosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Dolichoderus; specificEpithet: rugosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith, 1858); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. La Paz, Fca. El Mirador; verbatimElevation: 590 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'48.1"N 75°38'33.3"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-02-22; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Diagnosis
This species is one of the largest of the genus, recognised by the length of the maxillary palps which extend to the foramen magnum; furthermore, these ants have mesosoma extremely long and narrow, with the meso and metapleural longer than wide (Fig. 3).
Distribution
This species shows a Neotropical distribution with records only for South America, in the Amazon rainforest (Ortíz and Fernández 2011). It is reported here for the first time in the Department of Caquetá. In Colombia, it also has a record outside the Amazon Region, in the Department of Antioquia (Ortíz and Fernández 2011). In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana (Kempf 1969, Fernandez and Sendoya 2004).
Biology
Specimens record here were found in the leaf litter in the Rio Hacha Basin, being the predominant ant species in this highly conserved area (Andean-Amazonian transition zone in the Department of Caquetá).
description: Published as part of Arredondo, Brandon S., Carreño-Guevara, Yennifer, Gutierrez-Villanueva, Yenifer, Duran-Bautista, Ervin Humprey, Gamboa-Tabares, Jean & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2025, Soil and leaf litter ants from the Amazon Region offer new distribution records for Colombia, pp. e 142813 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e142813, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e142813