Dolichoderus debilis Emery, 1890

Dolichoderus debilis Emery, 1890 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061181 ; recordedBy: Kenna Martinez; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 5756BD00-C458-5C94-86AD-E5527B198C60; Taxon: scientificName: Dolichoderus debilis ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Dolichoderus ; specificEpithet: debilis ; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1890; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. San Luis, Fca. El Carmen 1 ; verbatimElevation: 433 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°40'34.2"N 75°37'39.2"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-20; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061182 ; recordedBy: Kenna Martinez; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 1F001B36-5B17-50C0-96B1-BA7398D2ABA5; Taxon: scientificName: Dolichoderus debilis ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Dolichoderus ; specificEpithet: debilis ; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1890; Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. San Luis, Fca. El Carmen 1 ; verbatimElevation: 433 m; locationRemarks: Collected in leaf Litter; verbatimCoordinates: 01°40'34.2"N 75°37'39.2"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-20; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

This species can be recognised by the absence of erect hairs on the scapes (small white erect hairs may be present), the presence of spines on the anterolateral angles of the pronotum (humeral angles) and the spine or tooth-shaped apical projection on the dorsal surface of the petiolar node (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ).

Distribution

Dolichoderus debilis has a Neotropical distribution. In Colombia, it has been recorded in the Departments of Antioquia, Bolívar, Guajira, Magdalena and Santander ( Fernández et al. 2019), as well as in the Departments of Amazonas, Meta and Putumayo in the Amazon Region ( Ortíz and Fernández 2011). It is reported here for the first time in the Department of Caquetá. In the Neotropical Region, the species has also been recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico ( Kempf 1959, Fernandez and Sendoya 2004).

Biology

The specimens were collected in an Andean Amazonian transition zone (Amazonian foothills) in the cloud forest. It has been recorded from the rainforest ( Mackay 1993). Some observations suggest that D. debilis is associated with the ant genus Crematogaster and with termites of the genus Nasutitermes ( Forel 1898, Wheeler 1936).