Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)
Extant: 15 valid species
Fossil: 1 valid species
Taxonomic history
Roger, 1863b PDF: 17 (catalogue);
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 409 (catalogue);
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 14 (diagnosis);
Mayr, 1867a PDF: 87 (diagnosis);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 23 (catalogue);
Emery, 1911e PDF: 41 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue);
Gallardo, 1918c PDF: 30 (Argentina species key);
Kusnezov, 1957e PDF: 13 (partial key);
Brown, 1958g PDF: 206 (review of genus, key);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 104 (Neotropical catalogue);
Smith, 1979: 1336 (North America catalogue);
Kugler & Brown, 1982: 6 (all species key);
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 341 (catalogue);
Fernández, 1992: 551 (Colombia species key);
Lattke, 1994 PDF: 109 (phylogeny);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census);
Bolton, 1995b: 186 (catalogue) ;
Arias-Penna, 2008b PDF: 56 (all species key);
Boudinot, 2015 PDF: 56 (male identification);
Nettel-Hernanz et al., 2015 10.1007/s13127-015-0215-9 PDF (phylogeny, biogeography);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 142 (brief male diagnosis);
Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019 PDF: 665 (Colombia species key)
Taxon Page Images:
Ectatomma tuberculatum tending the extrafloral nectary of an
Inga tree. Many plants provide nectar to ants in exchange for protection from herbivores. Gamboa, Panama.
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,
Guadeloupe,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Saint Lucia,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Uruguay,
Venezuela Europe: Italy Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Neotropical
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Ectatomma |
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Wheeler, W. M., 1923, Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera., Psyche 30, pp. 175-192: 186, (download) |
186 |
3374
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Ectatomma |
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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: 102, (download) |
102 |
8127
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Ectatomma |
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Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 731, (download) |
731 |
4445
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