Nomamyrmex hartigii (Westwood, 1842)

Pazmiño-Palomino, Alex & Troya, Adrian, 2022, Ants of Ecuador: new species records for a megadiverse country in South America, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20210089) 66 (2), pp. 1-15 : 3

Nomamyrmex hartigii (Westwood, 1842)

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Material examined. Ecuador. Guayas: Bosque Protector Cerro Blanco , 2.14153°S, 80.0862°W, 260m, 1☿, 2016-11-16, Pazmiño, A., Winkler, ( MEPN) .

Comments. This species differs from its morphologically closest species, N. esenbeckii Westwood , by the absence of the postoccipital sulcus and the posterior face of the petiolar node without longitudinal rugae ( Palacio, 2019). Nomamyrmex hartigii is a rarely collected species. In the Cerro Blanco reserve, a seasonal dry forest within the city of Guayaquil,APP found a single individual in a leaf litter sample. This species is widely distributed in Central and South America ( Janicki et al., 2016).

Figures

Figure 3 Nomamyrmex hartigii (Westwood) (worker,MEPN 40184):A) profile,B) frontal view, C) dorsal view. Images by Vladimir Carvajal. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Figure 21 Geographic distribution of the species examined in the present study.