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Genus: Apterostigma   Mayr, 1865 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 44 species

Fossil: 2 species

Apterostigma Mayr, 1865 PDF: 111. Type-species: Apterostigma pilosum, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Apterostigma in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865 PDF: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 149.
Apterostigma in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81 [Pheidolidae].
Apterostigma in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.
Apterostigma in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 164; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Forel, 1899B: 37; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 337; all subsequent authors.
Genus Apterostigma references
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 149 (catalogue); Wheeler, 1911k PDF: 207 (species key); Emery, 1924f: 337 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 23 (catalogue); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 326 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 74 (catalogue); Lattke, 1997 PDF: 121 (diagnosis, all species revision, 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:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Nearctic, Neotropical bioregions.

Nearctic Region: San Luis Potosí
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amazonas, Americas, Argentina, Atlántida, Barinas, Belize, Bolivia, Bolívar, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Caribbean, Cartago, Central, Central America, Chiapas, Chocó, Chontales, Coclé, Colombia, Colón, Comayagua, Concepción, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Beni, El Salvador, French Guiana, Goiás, Gracias a Dios, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guyana, Heredia, Honduras, Jinotega, Limón, Los Ríos, Magdalena, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mexico, Misiones, Napo, Nariño, Nicaragua, Oaxaca, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puntarenas, Putumayo, Rio Grande do Sul, San José, Santa Catarina, South America, Suriname, São Paulo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Veracruz


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