Southernmost record and new habitat type for Eurhopalothrix bruchi (Santschi, 1922) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sierra de La Ventana (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Santiago Santoandré; M. Bellocq; Julieta Filloy

doi:10.15560/12.4.1939

Check List 12(4): e19541, doi: 10.15560/12.4.1939

Southernmost record and new habitat type for Eurhopalothrix bruchi (Santschi, 1922) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sierra de La Ventana (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Santiago Santoandré^‡, M. Isabel Bellocq^‡, Julieta Filloy^‡

‡ Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires - IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Ciudad Universitaria, Pab 2, Piso 4, Buenos Aires 1426, Argentina., Argentina

Corresponding author: Santiago Santoandré ( santoandre@ege.fcen.uba.ar )

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Citation: Santoandré S, Bellocq M, Filloy J (2016) Southernmost record and new habitat type for Eurhopalothrix bruchi (Santschi, 1922) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sierra de La Ventana (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Check List 12(4): 1939. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.4.1939

Abstract

We report a new record of Eurhopalothrix bruchi(Santschi, 1922) from a mountain system in central-eastern Argentina. This is the southernmost record for the species, and the first reported from grassland habitats. One worker was collected in a pitfall trap during a survey of the myrmecofauna in Ernesto Tornquist Provincial Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina (38°03ʹ41ʺ S, 061°59ʹ18ʺ W; 700 m above sea level), in the summer of 2012–2013. We compile previous records in the Neotropics of this species and update the current geographical distribution.

Keywords

ants; Argentina; Attini; distributional range; new record; pitfall trap