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Ants of Cafetal Carlota, Oaxaca, Mexico
Ants of Cafetal Carlota, Oaxaca, Mexico
Report by John T. Longino, Michael G. Branstetter, The University of Utah; Jorge Valenzuela, Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Mexico. Student participants: Mario Augillar Mendez (Guanajuato), Brianna Bartholomew (Univ. Utah), Rhea Cone (Univ. Utah), Erika Alejandra Conti González (Guanajuato), Miguel Angel García-Martínez (INECOL), Kyle Gray (UC Davis), Dennis Infante (INECOL), Anamin Saraí Lizama Ramírez (Guanajuato), Jaqueline Ochoa Vega (Guanajuato), Madai Rosas Mejía (Guanajuato), Gabriel Somarriba (Univ. Florida).
This is a list of the ants of Cafetal Carlota, Mexico, based on Project ADMAC sampling. Cafetal Carlota is a site in the state of Oaxaca, on the slope of a massive limestone escarpment, Cerro Rabón, in the Sierra Mazateca. The escarpment extends from around 300m elevation at the base to over 2000m at the top. Cafetal Carlota is a historic coffee farm at about 1100m elevation.
Project ADMAC carried out ant sampling at Cafetal Carlota from 9-16 June 2016. Sampling included two miniWinkler transects of 50 samples each (5 m spacing; red dots), maxiWinkler samples (yellow dots), baiting transects (20 baits each, blue dots), beating samples (2hrs, green dots), and Malaise traps (white dots). Most sampling was in second growth Liquidambar forest on the small plateau around the farm itself, but a series of maxiWinkler samples was taken on the steep, densely forested slope above the farm, up to 1660m elevation.
Specimen records have been uploaded to the AntWeb database and are periodically updated. Names in the species list are linked to individual specimen records on AntWeb, from which a link can be followed to the general species page. These specimens function as site-specific vouchers, whose identities may change. The species names in the list are static text on this page. Following the specimen link to AntWeb will allow one to see if the name has changed.
Pseudomyrmex identifications were provided by Phil Ward.
There are at least 114 species.
A notable discovery was a new species of Adelomyrmex, related to the species A. betoi.
Ant List
Adelomyrmex JTL-036 (cf. paratristani)
Adelomyrmex JTL-046 (cf. betoi)
Aphaenogaster JTL-001 (cf. araneoides)
Apterostigma (unsorted)
Azteca (unsorted)
Brachymyrmex (unsorted)
Carebara JTL-011 (cf. intermedia)
Crematogaster JTL-030 (cf. snellingi)
Crematogaster JTL-039 (cf. nigropilosa)
Cyphomyrmex rimosus s.l.
Discothyrea horni_complex (cf. horni)
Discothyrea horni_complex (cf. denticulata)
Hypoponera (unsorted)
Leptogenys JTL-028 (cf. rufa)
Nylanderia (unsorted)
Pheidole JTL-211 (cf. mera)
Pheidole JTL-239 (cf. caltrop)
Pheidole JTL-263 (cf. acamata)
Rasopone JTL-028 (cf. ferrugineus)
Solenopsis (unsorted)
Strumigenys brevicornis_complex
Strumigenys JTL-034 (cf. micretes)
Syscia (singleton of different species)
Date of this version: 30 July 2017.
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