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Issue: Vol. 83 No. 1: 23 Apr. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-04-23
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2026.83.1.2
Page range: 13-31
Abstract views: 56
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Novelties in Colombian hunter ants: new records and additional notes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Ponerinae)

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogotá, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C, Colombia.
Alfaria Corrieopone Holcoponera Odontomachus Poneracantha Simopelta Taxonomy

Abstract

Hunter ants are among top invertebrate predators in tropical forests and play a key role in regulating invertebrate populations. This study documents new records of Ectatomminae and Ponerinae ants in the Colombian Amazon Basin. We provide the first country record of the genus and species Corrieopone nouragues, as well as new country records for ten other species: Alfaria simulans, Poneracantha mediatrix, Odontomachus allolabis, O. chicomendesi, O. davidsoni, O. ruginodis (sensu França et al. 2024), O. spissus, Pachycondyla procidua, Typhlomyrmex meire, and Simopelta anomma. Taxonomic notes are included for five species: Holcoponera auricula, H. dichotoma, Typhlomyrmex major, Odontomachus bauri, and O. ruginodis. An updated modified key is provided for species of Typhlomyrmex, along with the first photographs of the types of H. auricula and H. dichotoma, as well as the description of the queen of O. mormo.

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