Check List 12(5): e19572, doi: 10.15560/12.5.1970
Expansion of the geographic range of Cyatta abscondita Sosa‑Calvo et al., 2013 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
expand article infoCarolina S. Ramos‡, Santiago Santoandré§, Andrés F. Sánchez|, Gustavo A. Zurita, Julieta Filloy§
‡ Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (UBA-CONICET) Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina§ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina| Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas (Fu EDEI) Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina¶ Universidad Nacional de Misiones - CONICET, Argentina

Corresponding author: Carolina Ramos ( cramos@ege.fcen.uba.ar )

© 2017 Carolina Ramos, Santiago Santoandré, Andrés Sánchez, Gustavo Zurita, Julieta Filloy.
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Citation: Ramos C, Zurita G, Santoandré S, Sanchez A, Filloy J (2016) Expansion of the geographic range of Cyatta abscondita Sosa‑Calvo et al., 2013 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Check List 12(5): 1970. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.5.1970
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Abstract
The presence of the recently described fungus-farming ant genus and species Cyatta abscondita is reported in the northwestern region of Misiones Province in Argentina. A single worker of C. abscondita was collected in a pitfall trap in a mature plantation of Pinus taeda in the Atlantic Forest biome. This finding expands the distribution of the genus and species, extending it farther south in the Neotropics. 
Keywords
Argentina; Atlantic Forest; Atta genus group; fungus growing ants; new record