Mycetomoellerius farinosus
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
Mycetomoellerius
Mycetomoellerius farinosus

description: Mycetomoellerius farinosus (Emery, 1894)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061931; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 45CD220C-00A3-5480-ACA4-3AF8CD70C8E0; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061965; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 20A1D378-29BA-5ACA-A802-FD17DED0D453; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061972; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 83673E1E-C0EA-5E46-B69F-992AEE4E4919; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 20 cm to 30 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061973; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 40C151DA-F972-577D-A956-D9AD55EF32BD; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 20 cm to 30 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061980; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 45D4F552-CA7E-547B-AD68-82CF10AEA6EA; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000062142; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 3979AAE2-8CC2-5D33-B0E1-EB151C2388FD; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 10 cm to 20 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000062143; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 72E7280F-501C-5502-B7B9-868028082309; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 10 cm to 20 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000062144; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: E1E84BFE-4823-590C-B182-FC1AA6277E4B; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 10 cm to 20 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000062145; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 11BCAA12-5675-5A07-BDC8-F0E281D3217C; Taxon: scientificName: Mycetomoellerius farinosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Mycetomoellerius; specificEpithet: farinosus; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Villaraz, Fca. El Triunfo; verbatimElevation: 806 m; locationRemarks: From 10 cm to 20 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'18.3"N 75°40'06.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-03-14; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Diagnosis
This species is known for having the first gastral tergite depressed above, compressed on the sides, sub-truncated and gibbous behind and body covered with white scales along the hooked hairs (Fig. 12).
Distribution
Mycetomoellerius farinosus is a Neotropical species distributed in the Amazon rainforest (Ryder et al. 2010 b). This is the first record of the species in Colombia. In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Venezuela (Mayhe-Nunes and Jaffe 1998, Silva et al. 2004, Youngsteadt et al. 2009)
Biology
Mycetomoellerius farinosus is a species commonly present in leaf litter in the Andean-Amazonian transition zone of the Hacha River Basin (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