La Muralla
Ants of Parque Nacional La Muralla, Honduras
Report by John T. (Jack) Longino, The Evergreen State College.
This is a working list of the ants of Ants of Parque Nacional La Muralla, Honduras, based on Project LLAMA sampling. Specimen records have been uploaded to the AntWeb database and are periodically updated.
This is a static webpage with links to the AntWeb species pages, where you can see distribution maps on Google Earth. If links are dead, that means the database has changed as hypotheses of species boundaries evolve and names change.
There is a minimum of 85 species so far recorded.
Brachymyrmex (not sorted to species)
Crematogaster opaca (may be the southernmost record of the subgenus Crematogaster s.s., a temperate zone lineage)
Cyphomyrmex andersoni (rare!)
Cyphomyrmex rimosus s.l. (widespread complex of species, including minutus, fuscus)
Hypoponera (other material not sorted to species)
Leptanilloides JTL002 (tiny males with thin, curved, falcate mandibles; 2 collected in Malaise samples from La Muralla; assumed to be the same as the workers that LLAMA has collected in Chiapas and Guatemala, males from many other LLAMA sites.)
Nylanderia (not sorted to species)
Pachycondyla aenescens (northernmost record of this montane species)
Pachycondyla JTL022 (ferrugineus complex)
Pachycondyla lineaticeps (northernmost record?)
Pheidole guerrerana (Minor workers are similar to the super-abundant Pheidole mooreorum. Some of the many baiting and Winkler specimens identified as P. mooreorum in ethanol could be P. guerrerana)
Pheidole harrisonfordi (Minor workers of harrisonfordi, rectisentis, and JTL205 are nearly indistinguishable. Together they are very abundant ants at baits and in Winkler samples. Identifications based on minors only are likely to have a high error rate.)
Pheidole JTL205 (see note for harrisonfordi)
Pheidole mooreorum (see note for guerrerana)
Pheidole rectisentis (see note for harrisonfordi)
Pseudomyrmex (being processed by Phil Ward, but the following species was the one abundant species.)
Pyramica paradoxa (Very distinctive species previously known from a single worker from Costa Rica!)
Pyramica rogata (Unsure of species boundaries in this complex; could be three species at La Muralla, all called "rogata" for now.)
Solenopsis JTL031 (a distinctive thief ant with a transverse carina on vertex margin; previously known only from Costa Rica.)
Solenopsis (material of other thief ants not sorted to species; several species present.)
Strumigenys nevermanni (head shape like nevermanni and emeryi; setae on gaster most like nevermanni)
Strumigenys timicala (super-abundant in litter)
Tapinoma (one species moderately abundant in dead stems)
Wasmannia auropunctata (Very rare at this site! Collected at a single bait.)
Date of this version: 30 July 2017