Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 44 valid species
Fossil: 2 valid species
Taxonomic history
Apterostigma in
Myrmicinae,
Attini:
Forel, 1893b PDF: 164;
Emery, 1895l PDF: 770;
Emery, 1896e PDF: 181;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 37;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 141;
Emery, 1913c PDF: 251;
Emery, 1914e PDF: 42;
Forel, 1917 PDF: 247;
Wheeler, 1922: 669;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 337; subsequent authors;
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 326;
Bolton, 1995b: 21;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 197;
Ward et al., 2015 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF: 77.
Wheeler, 1911k PDF: 207 (species key);
Emery, 1924f PDF: 337 (diagnosis);
Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census);
Lattke, 1997 PDF: 121 (diagnosis, all species revision, key);
Baccaro et al., 2015 10.5281/zenodo.32912 PDF: 210 (genus in Brazil);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 187 (brief male diagnosis);
Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 837 (Colombia species key).
Taxon Page Images:
Apterostigma auriculatum fungus-growing ants are true agriculturalists. They subsist on a fungus they cultivate with bits of collected detritus. Panama; Laboratory colony at the University of Texas.
Image ©
Alex Wild.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Argentina,
Belize,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
El Salvador,
French Guiana,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Suriname,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Uruguay,
Venezuela Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia