Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)
Extant: 33 valid species, 22 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Acromyrmex as subgenus of
Atta:
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 83;
Forel, 1885a PDF: 354;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 151;
Forel, 1893b PDF: 163;
Emery, 1895l PDF: 770;
Forel, 1899d PDF: 30;
Emery, 1905f: 39;
Wheeler, 1907d PDF: 670;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 141;
Wheeler, 1922: 669.
Forel, 1885a PDF: 361 (all species key);
Emery, 1905f: 40 (all species key);
Gallardo, 1916e PDF: 325 (Argentina species key);
Emery, 1924f PDF: 347 (diagnosis, catalogue);
Emery, 1924f PDF: 350 (
Acromyrmex (Moellerius) diagnosis, catalogue);
Santschi, 1925a PDF: 388 (all species revision, key);
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 326 (North America species key);
Kusnezov, 1956a PDF: 33 (Argentina species key);
Gonçalves, 1961 PDF: 118 (Brazil species revision, key);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 10 (Neotropical catalogue);
Alayo, 1974 PDF: 42 (Cuba checklist);
Zolessi & Abenante, 1977: 73 (Uruguay species, male genitalia);
Smith, 1979: 1412 (North America catalogue);
Fowler, 1988b PDF: 284 (
Acromyrmex (Moellerius) species key);
Cherrett & Cherrett, 1989 PDF: 1 (bibliography);
Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1047 (census);
Bolton, 1995b: 54 (catalogue);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 183 (brief male diagnosis);
Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 833 (Colombia species key)
Taxon Page Images:
Acromyrmex coronatus, cutting through a leaf. Panamá.
Image ©
Alex Wild.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Argentina,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Cuba,
Curaçao,
Ecuador,
El Salvador,
French Guiana,
Galapagos Islands,
Guadeloupe,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Trinidad and Tobago,
United States,
Uruguay,
Venezuela Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical
Notes:
These leaf-cutting ants are represented in California by a single species, Acromyrmex versicolor
(Pergande), confined to the southern deserts. The harvested leaves are used to culture
a basidiomycete fungus, which is the principal food of the ants. References: Gamboa
(1975, 1976), Johnson and Rissing (1993), Julian and Fewell (2004), Mueller et al. (2001),
Reichardt and Wheeler (1996), Rissing et al. (1986, 1989), Snelling and George (1979),
Weber (1972).
(From Ward, 2005).
References:
Ward, P.S. (2005). A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa, 936: 1-68.
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 30, (download) |
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Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 30, (download) |
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Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 30, (download) |
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21367
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Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 30, (download) |
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Neal A. Weber, University of North Dakota, 1936, The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part. I. New forms. 1, Revista de Entomologia 7, pp. 378-409: 407-408, (download) |
407-408 |
3011
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Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 31, (download) |
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