Sericomyrmex mayri Forel, 1912

Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John & Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1205-1227 : 1219

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.5.1205

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4338306

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scientific name

Sericomyrmex mayri Forel, 1912
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(32) Sericomyrmex mayri Forel, 1912 View in CoL

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Material examined material. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 1 worker; Amalfi; 06°46′19.2″N, 075°05′24.4″W; alt. 1550 m; 1 Jul. 1998; F. Sernaleg.; MEFLG 5901 GoogleMaps ; Antioquia • 3 workers; Amalfi; 06°45′57.6″N, 075°06′25.02″W; alt. 955 m; Sep. 2006; M.A. Vanegas leg.; MEFLG 5901 GoogleMaps ; Antioquia • 1 worker; Amalfi; 06°47′48.92″N, 075° 06′55.56″W; alt. 1113 m; 2 Oct. 1998; F. Sernaleg.; ME- FLG 5901 GoogleMaps ; Antioquia • 3 workers; Amalfi; 06°47′48.92″N, 075°06′55.56″W; alt. 1113 m; 1997; F. Sernaleg.; MEFLG 5901 GoogleMaps ; Antioquia • 1 worker; San Carlos; 06°11′29″N, 074°59′43″W; alt. 1036 m; 05 Jan. 2007; N. Vergara, C. Gómez leg.; UNAB 4774 GoogleMaps ; Sucre • 3 workers; Ovejas; 09°32′4.1″N, 075°13′18.5″W; alt. 277 m; 4 Feb. 2016; H. Cadena leg.; MEFLG 40894 , 40893 , 40892 GoogleMaps .

Identification. Large species; head broad; frontal lobe narrow; mandible usually striate; frontal carina often in- complete; eye flat to mildly convex; posterior cephalic margin shallow, abruptly to gradually impressed; poste- rior cephalic corner usually angled; mesosomal tubercles low and obtuse; and gaster with lateral carina well-devel- oped, dorsal carina absent or faint ( Ješovnik and Schultz 2017).

Distribution. Sericomyrmex mayri has been recorded from Bolivia, the northern states of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In Central America, S. mayri is only known in Panama ( Forel 1912; Ješovnik and Schultz 2017).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Sericomyrmex