Adelomyrmex micans Fernández

Longino, John T., 2012, A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America, Zootaxa 3456, pp. 1-35 : 23-24

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scientific name	Adelomyrmex micans Fernández
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Adelomyrmex micans Fernández in Fernández & MacKay, 2003

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Adelomyrmex micans Fernández in Fernández & MacKay, 2003: 601. Holotype worker: Mexico, Chiapas: 5 km W San Cristobal, Cerro Huitepec, 2700 m, 14 Sep 1992 (R. S. Anderson No. 92-101) [MCZC] (not examined). Paratype queen: Mexico, Chiapas, 4 km N Unión Juarez, Volcán Tacana, lower slopes, 2000 m, 19 Sep 1992 (R. S. Anderson No. 92-110). See also: Fernández, 2003: 23.

Geographic range. Southern Mexico to Honduras.

Biology. Adelomyrmex micans is a high elevation specialist inhabiting mature cloud forest from 1700–2700 m, usually above 2000 m. Most specimens are from sifted litter, and when present it occurs in 1–5% of quantitative miniWinkler samples. Workers are occasionally encountered at baits. At a site in the Cordillera de Chiapas, LLAMA project participant D. J. Cox hand-collected a specimen 25 m high in a cloud forest tree, by searching under epiphytes.

References

Fernandez, F. & MacKay, W. P. (2003) The myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex laevigatus species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology, 41, 593 - 604.

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FIGURE 21. Distribution of material examined in this study: Adelomyrmex anxiocalor sp. nov., A. betoi, A. bispeculum sp. nov., A. brenesi, A. laevigatus, A. mackayi, A. marginodus sp. nov., A. metzabok sp. nov., A. micans, A. microps, A. minimus, A. paratristani sp. nov., A. quetzal sp. nov., A. tristani.