Azteca (ant)
Azteca | |
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A. adrepens worker from Paraguay | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
Genus: | Azteca Forel, 1878 |
Type species | |
Roger, 1863
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Diversity[1] | |
86 species |
Azteca is a strictly Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2] The genus is very diverse and contains around 84 extant species and two fossil species. They are essentially arboreal and many species have mutualistic associations with particular plant species, where the genus Cecropia presents the most conspicuous association.[3] In the Brazilian Amazonia, Azteca species are associated with species of Codonanthopsis.[4]
Species[]
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Azteca alpha worker in amber
- Azteca adrepens Forel, 1911
- Azteca aesopus Forel, 1908
- Azteca alfari Emery, 1893
- †Azteca alpha Wilson, 1985
- Azteca andreae Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Azteca angusticeps Emery, 1893
- Azteca aragua Longino, 1991
- Azteca aurita Emery, 1893
- Azteca australis Wheeler, 1942
- Azteca barbifex Forel, 1906
- Azteca beltii Emery, 1893
- Azteca bequaerti Wheeler & Bequaert, 1929
- Azteca brevicornis (Mayr, 1878)
- Azteca brevis Forel, 1899
- Azteca chartifex Emery, 1896
- Azteca christopherseni Forel, 1912
- Azteca coeruleipennis Emery, 1893
- Azteca constructor Emery, 1896
- Azteca cordincola Forel, 1921
- Azteca coussapoae Forel, 1904
- Azteca crassicornis Emery, 1893
- Azteca delpini Emery, 1893
- Azteca depilis Emery, 1893
- Azteca diabolica Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Forel, 1906
- Forel, 1904
- Forel, 1904
- †Azteca eumeces Wilson, 1985
- Emery, 1893
- Longino, 2007
- Emery, 1893
- Wheeler, 1921
- Forel, 1906
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1906
- Forel, 1906
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1915
- (Smith, 1862)
- Wheeler, 1942
- Emery, 1893
- Forel, 1904
- Forel, 1899
- Emery, 1893
- Longino, 1991
- Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Emery, 1893
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1909
- Emery, 1893
- Longino, 1991
- Forel, 1904
- Azteca muelleri Emery, 1893
- Longino, 2007
- Forel, 1912
- Forel, 1899
- Longino, 2007
- Forel, 1904
- Forel, 1904
- Forel, 1904
- Longino, 1991
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1899
- Longino, 2007
- Wheeler & Darlington, 1930
- Forel, 1912
- Emery, 1893
- Emery, 1893
- (Mayr, 1866)
- Longino, 2007
- Emery, 1896
- Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Forel, 1921
- Emery, 1896
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1904
- Forel, 1899
- Forel, 1899
- Emery, 1893
- Forel, 1912
- Emery, 1893
- Forel, 1904
- Forel, 1899
- (Roger, 1863)
References[]
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Azteca". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Azteca". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Cardoso, D.; Cristiano, M. P.; Barros, L. S.; Lopes, D.; Pompolo, S. (2012). "First cytogenetic characterization of a species of the arboreal ant genus Azteca Forel, 1978 (Dolichoderinae, Formicidae)". Comparative Cytogenetics. 6 (2): 107–14. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v6i2.2397. PMC 3833797. PMID 24260655.
- ^ Marini-Filho, Onildo J. (1999). "Distribution, composition, and dispersal of ant gardens and tending ants in three kinds of central Amazonian habitats". Tropical Zoology. 12 (2): 289–296. doi:10.1080/03946975.1999.10539395.
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External links[]
Media related to Azteca at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Azteca (genus)
- Ant genera
- Dolichoderinae
- Hymenoptera of South America
- Hymenoptera of North America
- Dolichoderinae stubs