Mexico's Ants: Who are They and Where do They Live?

Authors :: Dáttilo, Wesley
Vásquez‐Bolaños, Miguel
Ahuatzin, Diana A.
Antoniazzi, Reuber
Chávez‐González, Edgar
Corro, Erick
Luna, Pedro
Guevara, Roger
Villalobos, Fabricio
Madrigal‐Chavero, Ricardo
de Faria Falcão, Jéssica C.
Bonilla‐Ramírez, Adrián
Romero, Agustín Rafael García
Mora, Aldo
Ramírez‐Hernández, Alfredo
Escalante‐Jiménez, Ana Leticia
Martínez‐Falcón, Ana P.
Villarreal, Andrés I.
Sandoval, Ashley García Colón
Aponte, Bolívar
Source :: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America; Apr2020, Vol. 101 Issue 2, p1-4, 4p
Publication Year :: 2020
Abstract: A team of 79 scientists from more than 50 institutions partnered to gather all available information regarding Mexican ants since 1894, the year in which the first geographical record of an ant is known for the country. Photo credit: Diana Ahuatzin. gl GLO:69VH/01apr20:bes21666-fig-0002.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): Turtle ant Cephalotes scutulatus (Formicidae: Myrmicinae), a tree-dwelling myrmicine ant species native to Mexico and distributed in the Neotropical and Transition zone of the country occurring from sea level to an elevation of ~1200 m. [Extracted from the article]