Myrmicocrypta urichi Weber 1937
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
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Myrmicocrypta
Myrmicocrypta urichi

description: <b>(28) <i>Myrmicocrypta urichi</i> Weber, 1937 </b>Figure 7G, H<b>Material examined.</b> COLOMBIA: <b>Antioquia •</b> 1 work- er; Santafé de Antioquia; 06°33′41″N, 075°49′54″W; alt. 600 m; Nov. 2017; D. Mera-Rodríguez leg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 12 workers; Florencia; 01°30′9.99″N, 075°36′ 23″W; alt. 250 m; 28 Sep. 2016; UNAB members leg.; UNAB 4358; <b>Caquetá •</b> 12 workers; Florencia; 01°37′ 11″N, 075°36′14″W; alt. 300 m; 31 Mar. 2016; F. Ser- na leg.; UNAB 4358; <b>Caquetá •</b> 3 workers; Florencia; 01°25′34″N, 075°30′59″W; alt. 267 m; Sep. 2017; D. Mera- Rodríguez leg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 15 workers; Flor- encia; 01°30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. 2017; UNAB members leg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 6 work- ers; Florencia; 01°25′34″N, 075°30′59″W; alt. 267 m; Sep. 2017; D. Cubillosleg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 17 workers; Florencia; 01°30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. 2017; UNABmembers leg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 25 workers; Florencia; 01°30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. 2017; D. Pantoja leg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 18 workers; Flor- encia; 01°25′34″N, 075°30′59″W; alt. 267 m; Sep. 2017; F. Serna, D. Cubillosleg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 3 workers; Florencia; 01°30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. 2017; F. Serna, D. CubillosLeg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 9 workers; Florencia; 01°25′34″N, 075°30′59″W; alt. 267 m; Sep. 2017; D. Mera-Rodríguez leg.; UNAB 4758; <b>Caquetá •</b> 6 workers; Florencia; 01°30′4″N, 075°39′42″W; alt. 280 m; Sep. 2017; D. Mera-Rodríguez leg.; UNAB 4758. <b>Identification.</b> Dark brown ants; body covered by scales; apical mandibular tooth in anterior view as long as preapical tooth; clypeus, front and frontal lobes densely covered with scales; postpetiole in dorsal view shaped as longitudinal half of an ellipse; and postpetiole 2.5× broader than long (Sosa-Calvo 2015). <b>Distribution.</b><i>Myrmicocrypta urichi</i> occurs in Colombia, the Lesser Antilles, and Venezuela (Kempf 1972; Sosa-Calvo 2015).
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 pages 1217-1219, DOI: 10.15560/16.5.1205, http://zenodo.org/record/4059086
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