Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 12 valid species, 17 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Eciton in
Dorylinae,
Ecitonini:
Forel, 1893b PDF: 163;
Emery, 1895l PDF: 765 [Ecitonii];
Emery, 1910b PDF: 17 [Ecitini];
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 138;
Forel, 1917 PDF: 240;
Gallardo, 1920 PDF: 312;
Wheeler, 1922: 635;
Borgmeier, 1923: 37;
Donisthorpe, 1943g: 641;
Borgmeier, 1955 PDF: 79;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 101;
Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
Smith, 1858a PDF: 148 (diagnosis);
Roger, 1863b PDF: 36 (catalogue);
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 408 (catalogue);
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 17, 77 (diagnosis, all species key);
Mayr, 1886a PDF: 115 (all species key);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 1 (catalogue);
Emery, 1900e: 176 (all species, males key);
Emery, 1910b PDF: 17 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue);
Gallardo, 1920 PDF: 312 (Argentina species key);
Borgmeier, 1955 PDF: 162, 175 (diagnosis, all species revision, key);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 101 (Neotropical catalogue);
Watkins, 1976 PDF: 9 (all species key);
Watkins, 1982 PDF: 209 (Mexico species key);
Billen, 1986b: 170 (Dufour's gland);
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 341 (catalogue);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census);
Bolton, 1995b: 184 (catalogue);
Palacio, 1999: 151 (Colombia species key);
Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 129 (worker, male diagnosis);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 131 (brief male diagnosis);
Palacio, 2019 PDF: 585 (Colombia species key);
Palacio, 2019 PDF: 599 (Colombia species key)
Taxon Page Images:
Eciton burchellii bivouac. These army ants form living nests from their own bodies. Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador.
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,
Galapagos Islands,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Suriname,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Uruguay,
Venezuela Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Neotropical
Identification:
Key to species based on males (translated and adapted from Borgmeier 1955 by B.E. Boudinot)
1 Mandibular apex truncate and rounded ...
E. jansoni
- Mandibular apex pointed ...2
2 Mandibles broadest in basal third (mandibles appearing narrow) ... 3
- Mandibles broades in apical half (mandibles appearing broad) ... 5
3 Mandibles more or less straight (and very thin) ...
E. burchelli
- Mandibles bent basally ... 4
4 Mandibles long, apical tooth almost straight ...
E. dulcius
- Mandibles shorter, apical tooth curved inwards ...
E. quadriglurne
5 Subapical tooth small; apical tooth slightly bent ... 6
- Subapical tooth very large; apical tooth bent, hook-shaped ... 8
6 Metasoma with erect bristles ... 7
- Metasoma without erect bristles ...
E. vagans
7 Scape with standing setae. Body reddish or rusty yellow; abdominal tergites 3-5 with scattered standing setae ...
E. hamatum
- Scape without standing setae. Body blackish brown; tergites 3-5 with setae restricted to a band ...
E. setigaster
8 Area between subapical and apical teeth straight ...
E. uncinatum
- Area between subapical and apical teeth with broad concavity subtending apical tooth ...
E. mexicanum
References:
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720.
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Eciton |
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Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum, pp. -1--1: 148, (download) |
148 |
8127
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Eciton |
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Forel, A., 1893, Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent. Récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893, pp. 333-418: 369, (download) |
369 |
3948
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Eciton |
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Jerdon, T. C., 1851, A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India., Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17, pp. 103-127: 111, (download) |
111 |
4764
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