Check List 18(2): 399-404, doi: 10.15560/18.2.399
New distribution record of Bicolored Trailing Ant, Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Ecuador, with information on cohabitation with the social spider Anelosimus eximius (Keyserling, 1884)
Pablo Sebastián Padrón‡, Lucía Vanessa Ortiz‡, Pamela Estefanía Andrade‡, José Manuel Falcón‡, Anja Junghanns‡‡ Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
Corresponding author: Pablo Sebastián Padrón ( sebastianpadronm@yahoo.com ) Academic editor: Gabriela P Camacho © Pablo Sebastián Padrón, Lucía Vanessa Ortiz, Pamela Estefanía Andrade, José Manuel Falcón, Anja Junghanns. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Padrón PS, Ortiz LV, Andrade PE, Falcón JM, Junghanns A (2022) New distribution record of Bicolored Trailing Ant, Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Ecuador, with information on cohabitation with the social spider Anelosimus eximius (Keyserling, 1884). Check List 18(2): 399-404. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.2.399 |  |
Abstract
Invasive ant species are a serious threat to native fauna, especially in highly diverse tropical countries. Therefore, new distribution reports and information on the interactions with other species are essential to understand the potential effects of invasive ants on biodiversity. Here we report for the first time the presence of colonies of Monomorium floricola (Jerdon, 1851) in the nest of the Neotropical social spider Anelosimus eximius (Keyserling, 1884) in the southern part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Our report extends the known distributional range of M. floricola to the southern Ecuador.
Keywords
Conservation, invasive species, kleptoparasitism, Neotropics