Current View: Bolton World Catalog
Change View
Cite this page

Citing AntWeb

X

To cite this page, please use the following:

· For print: . Accessed

· For web:


Species: Megalomyrmex drifti   Kempf, 1961 


Classification:
Compare Images
Download Data

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Megalomyrmex drifti Kempf, 1961b PDF: 504, figs. 9-11 (w.q.) SURINAM. Neotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Brandão, 1990b PDF: 448 (m.); Boudinot, Sumnicht & Adams, 2013 PDF: 30 (w.q.).
See also: Kempf, 1970c PDF: 362.

Distribution:


Australasia Region: Central
Neotropical Region: Aragua, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Gracias a Dios, Guatemala, Guyana, Heredia, Honduras, Limón, Matagalpa, Meta, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puntarenas, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

Distribution Notes:

Widespread in Neotropics from Brazil to Mexico. Costa Rica: throughout the country in the lowlands.

Biology:

Natural History:

This species is known largely from samples of soil and leaf litter from the ground. I have collected workers and queens from Winkler and/or Berlese samples from Hitoy Cerere, La Selva, Rara Avis, Santa Rosa (Bosque humedo), Manuel Antonio, Osa Peninsula.

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55

drifti KempfHNS 1961.

Alto Paraná, Amambay, Central, Concepción (ALWC, BMNH, MHNG).

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 19 times found in tropical wet forest, 5 times found in tropical rainforest, 5 times found in mature wet forest, 4 times found in tropical rainforest, with some big trees, probably a mix of primary and secondary forest, 1 times found in forest, 2 times found in tropical rainforest, with big trees, probably primary, 2 times found in wet forest, 1 times found in montane wet forest, 1 times found in 2nd growth forest, 1 times found in cloud forest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 42 times ex sifted leaf litter, 2 times Wet forest. Ex sifted leaf litter., 1 times tall forest, rocky soil, 1 times ex sifted litter, rotten wood, 1 times Ex hojarasca.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 31 times miniWinkler, 7 times maxiWinkler, 6 times Winkler, 2 times Berlese, 1 times litter sample.

Elevations: collected from 10 - 1230 meters, 517 meters average

Type specimens:



See something amiss? Send us an email.
Enlarge Map