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- Title
Springtails (Collembola) Associated with Nests of Fungus-Growing Ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) in Southern Bahia, Brazil.
- Authors
Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela; Palacios-Vargas, José G.; Delabie, Jacques H.C.; Zeppelini, Douglas; Mariano, Cléa S.F.
- Abstract
Four species of Collembola were found in nests of the ant genera Myrmicocrypta, Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex of the tribe Attini (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). The panmyrmecophilic collembolan Cyphoderus (Lepidocyrtidae: Cyphoderinae) was the most abundant and was associated with all the ants. The collembolan genus Mucrosomia (Isotomidae: Anurophorinae) was found for the first time in ant nests. This is the first list of springtails found in nests of fungus-growing ants other than those belonging to the genera Atta and Acromyrmex (Formicidae: Myrmicinae).
- Subjects
COLLEMBOLA; ANTS; INSECTS
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2017, Vol 100, Issue 4, p740
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.100.0421