Basiceros disciger (Mayr, 1887)

Basiceros disciger (Mayr, 1887) View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000066499 ; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 19B846E0-CFAC-5490-B216-E3D819CC71FD; Taxon: scientificName: Basiceros disciger ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Basiceros ; specificEpithet: disciger ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr, 1887); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Sucre, Fca. Carlos Endo ; verbatimElevation: 1018 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°47'33.8"N 75°39'01.3"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Winkler; eventDate: 2023-02-09; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

This species is recognised within the genus Basiceros by the following characteristics: rounded occipital margin forming a continuous elevated crest, posterior crest of the vertex emarginate medially which meets the medial convexity of the vertex (Fig. 7 View Figure 7 ).

Distribution

This species is rarely collected. In Colombia, it has been recorded in the Departments of Meta and Norte de Santander ( Probst and Brandão 2022). It is reported here for the first time in the Department of Caquetá. In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela ( Probst and Brandão 2022).

Biology

B. disciger is a common species in leaf-litter samples and widely distributed. A distinctive characteristic of this species is it presence in both highly conserved and degraded areas, unlike other species of the genus ( Probst and Brandão 2022).