Dolichoderus debilis Emery 1890
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 debilis

description: Dolichoderus debilis Emery, 1890
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061181; recordedBy: Kenna Martinez; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 5756BD00-C458-5C94-86AD-E5527B198C60; Taxon: scientificName: Dolichoderus debilis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Dolichoderus; specificEpithet: debilis; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1890; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. San Luis, Fca. El Carmen 1; verbatimElevation: 433 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°40'34.2"N 75°37'39.2"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-20; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061182; recordedBy: Kenna Martinez; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 1F001B36-5B17-50C0-96B1-BA7398D2ABA5; Taxon: scientificName: Dolichoderus debilis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Dolichoderus; specificEpithet: debilis; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1890; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. San Luis, Fca. El Carmen 1; verbatimElevation: 433 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°40'34.2"N 75°37'39.2"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-20; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Diagnosis
This species can be recognised by the absence of erect hairs on the scapes (small white erect hairs may be present), the presence of spines on the anterolateral angles of the pronotum (humeral angles) and the spine or tooth-shaped apical projection on the dorsal surface of the petiolar node (Fig. 2).
Distribution
Dolichoderus debilis has a Neotropical distribution. In Colombia, it has been recorded in the Departments of Antioquia, Bolívar, Guajira, Magdalena and Santander (Fernández et al. 2019), as well as in the Departments of Amazonas, Meta and Putumayo in the Amazon Region (Ortíz and Fernández 2011). It is reported here for the first time in the Department of Caquetá. In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico (Kempf 1959, Fernandez and Sendoya 2004).
Biology
The specimens were collected in an Andean Amazonian transition zone (Amazonian foothills) in the cloud forest. It has been recorded from the rainforest (Mackay 1993). Some observations suggest that D. debilis is associated with the ant genus Crematogaster and with termites of the genus Nasutitermes (Forel 1898, Wheeler 1936).
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