Dorymyrmex insanus (Buckley, 1866)

Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J., Rosas-Mejia, Madai, Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica & Janda, Milan, 2021, New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60630-60630 : 60630

Dorymyrmex insanus (Buckley, 1866)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Dorymyrmex ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Buckley, 1866); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Guanajuato; locality: Cerro Culiacan ; verbatimElevation: 2085 m; decimalLatitude: 20.32546; decimalLongitude: -100.997002; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2017; month: 5; day: 13; habitat: secondary arboreal vegetation of a deciduous forest Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Dorymyrmex ; scientificNameAuthorship: Buckley (1866); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Guanajuato; locality: Calderones ; verbatimElevation: 2344 m; decimalLatitude: 20.989226; decimalLongitude: -101.23634; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2017; month: 9; day: 23; habitat: natural grassland Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Dorymyrmex ; scientificNameAuthorship: Buckley (1866); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Guanajuato; locality: Chichindaro ; verbatimElevation: 2313 m; decimalLatitude: 21.022; decimalLongitude: -101.224; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2017; month: 8; day: 13; habitat: induced grassland Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Dorymyrmex ; scientificNameAuthorship: Buckley (1866); Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Guanajuato; locality: Cerro de la Bufa ; verbatimElevation: 2160 m; decimalLatitude: 20.999888; decimalLongitude: -101.249285; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2017; month: 9; day: 22; habitat: natural grassland

Distribution

Dorymyrmex insanus (Buckley, 1866) were found in four different localities in the Guanajuato State: Cerro Culiacan (secondary arboreal vegetation of a deciduous forest, 18.3 ºC of amt and 56.25 mm/cm2 of amp), Calderones (natural grassland, 18.4 ºC of amt and 54.75 mm/cm2 of amp), Chichindaro (induced grassland, 15.3 ºC of amt and 60.4 mm/cm2 of amp) and Cerro la Bufa (natural grassland, 18.4 ºC of amt and 54.75 mm/cm2 of amp). Dorymyrmex insanus are previously recorded from Colombia to Wyoming, U.S. ( Guénard et al. 2017) and, in Mexico, are recorded in almost three quarters of the States.

Biology

Nests can be found in open areas, mounds and in temporal cultivated areas. Altitude range is from 75 to 2590 m a.s.l. ( Allred 1982, Cuezzo and Guerrero 2012).