New Records of the Dorylinae Ant Genus Cheliomyrmex for the Brazilian Amazon Basin

New Records of the Dorylinae Ant Genus Cheliomyrmex for the Brazilian Amazon Basin

The Dorylinae subfamily are dominant invertebrate predators in tropical and subtropical terrestrial ecosystems. The most cryptic army ant genus of the New World is Cheliomyrmex. The only specie recognized until now to the Amazon Brazilian Basin is C. andicola, with record in the state of Acre. We pr...

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Main Authors: Itanna Oliveira Fernandes, Jorge Luiz Pereira Souza, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Fernando Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2015-04-01
Series:Sociobiology
Subjects:
Cheliomyrmex megalonyx
army ants
biogeography
Amazon rain forest
hypogaeic ants.
Online Access:http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/532

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