Adelomyrmex striatus Fernandez 2003
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
Adelomyrmex
Adelomyrmex striatus

description: Adelomyrmex striatus Fernández, 2003
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000066483; recordedBy: Fernando Celis; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 6EE48905-53B7-560D-B507-09E3E930A680; Taxon: scientificName: Adelomyrmex striatus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Adelomyrmex; specificEpithet: striatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fernández, 2003; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Sucre, Fca. La Fortaleza; verbatimElevation: 1266 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°48'22.1"N 75°39'12.7"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Winkler; eventDate: 2023-08-12; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000066484; recordedBy: Fernando Celis; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 82AA0EC0-0A98-54BF-BA65-13AEBD3A82B4; Taxon: scientificName: Adelomyrmex striatus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Adelomyrmex; specificEpithet: striatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fernández, 2003; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Sucre, Fca. La Fortaleza; verbatimElevation: 1266 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°48'22.1"N 75°39'12.7"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Winkler; eventDate: 2023-08-12; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000066485; recordedBy: Fernando Celis; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: B955E2A6-628A-5E83-B5B6-17CD517F32A4; Taxon: scientificName: Adelomyrmex striatus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Adelomyrmex; specificEpithet: striatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fernández, 2003; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Sucre, Fca. La Fortaleza; verbatimElevation: 1266 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°48'22.1"N 75°39'12.7"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Winkler; eventDate: 2023-08-12; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000066486; recordedBy: Yenifer Gutierrez; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 71FE94C8-DD46-58AF-B344-15BA8BD19B3E; Taxon: scientificName: Adelomyrmex striatus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Adelomyrmex; specificEpithet: striatus; scientificNameAuthorship: Fernández, 2003; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Av. Caraño, Vía Florencia-Suaza; verbatimElevation: 1523 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'10.7"N 75°43'10.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Winkler; eventDate: 2023-09-30; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Diagnosis
This species is easily distinguished by sharp spiniform teeth on the median clypeal lobe and regular longitudinal striate sculpture on the head, pronotum, mesonotum, sides of mesosoma and petiole (Fig. 5).
Distribution
This record in the Andean-Amazonian transition zone of the Department of Caquetá represents the second record of the species in Colombia, suggesting a possible distributional restriction for the Amazon rainforest (Guerrero et al. 2018). In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Ecuador, Peru and Brazil (Longino 2012).
Biology
Slow-moving ants difficult to distinguish from the substrate. All specimens were extracted from sifted leaf litter from the humid forest above 1200 m in the Andean-Amazonian transition zone studied.
Notes
The Colombian specimen presents yellowish, long and flexuous hairs on the body, but shorter than in the populations from Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil). A population from Peru presents variation in the teeth of the medial clypeal lobe, as well as finer sculpting in the frontal area of the head (Longino 2012).
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