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2019, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
Galls are neoformed plant structures created by cell hyperplasia and hypertrophy induced by a number of organisms, especially insects. After adult insects hatch, senescent galls may remain on the host plant and be occupied by a succession of fauna, the most important and dominant being ants. This study aimed at characterizing the ant fauna successor of stem galls induced by microlepidoptera in Microgramma squamulosa (Kaulf.) de la Sota (Polypodiaceae). Four collections were carried out in the municipality of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. The galls were packed in plastic bags and taken to the laboratory. Ants were euthanized and conserved in 70 • GL alcohol and later identified. A total of 49 stem galls were collected and analyzed, 15 containing microlepidoptera galler larvae, one a parasitoid wasp and 33 without the microlepidoptera or parasitoid (67%). Twelve of these galls (39%) contained ants. Six ant species were recorded (Camponotus crassus, Crematogaster curvispinosa, Crematogaster sericea, Procryp-tocerus sampaioi, Tapinoma atriceps, and Wasmannia auropunctata), all native to Brazil. Ant occupation in M. squamulosa seems to be associated with senescent galls due to hatching of the galler insect, which leaves a hole that allows ants to colonize it, in other words, an opportunistic domatia. Senescent galls resulting from the death of galler insects do not seem to facilitate ant occupation.
American Fern Journal
Moth Larvae-damaged Giant Leather-fern Acrostichum danaeifolium as Host for Secondary Colonization by Ants2003 •
Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews
The arboreal ant community visiting extrafloral nectaries in the Neotropical cerrado savanna2010 •
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
An asymmetrical relationship between an arboreal ponerine ant and a trash-basket epiphyte (Araceae)2007 •
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
The Amazonas-trap: a new method for sampling plant-inhabiting arthropod communities in tropical forest understory2019 •
Methods to quantify plant-insect interactions in tropical forests may miss many important arthro-pods and can be time consuming and uneven in capture efficiency. We describe the Amazonas-trap, a new method that rapidly envelops the target plant for sampling arthropods. We evaluated the efficiency of the Amazonas-trap by comparing it with two commonly used sampling methods to collect arthropods from plants: the beating tray and manual collection. Samples were collected in 10 permanent plots, in the Ducke forest reserve, Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil). In each plot we sampled 18 plant individuals of Protium sp. (Burseraceae): six by a beating tray, six by manual collection, and six using the Amazonas-trap. All insects were identified to the family level and those belonging to the order Hymenoptera were identified to the species and morphospecies level. The new method sampled more insect families and more Hymenoptera species than tree beating and manual collection. Of the 75 total families collected, 20 were sampled exclusively by the Amazonas-trap, seven were only collected with a beating tray, and seven were sampled exclusively with manual collecting. A similar pattern was found for abundance: Amazonas-trap sampled more individuals, followed by the beating tray and manual collection. Small and winged arthropods were more abundant in Amazonas-trap, explaining the highest richness of Hymenoptera and insect families sampled with this method. The new method sampled more spiders, wood-fungi feeders, sap suckers, omnivorous, parasitoids, and insect predators than the other methods, but was equally effective in sampling leaf-feeders and ants. Amazonas-trap was more time consuming in the field, but for all diversity parameters evaluated, the new method showed better performance for collecting invertebrates on plants.
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We provide here a checklist of the ants of French Guiana, an overseas department of France situated in northern South America, with a very low human population density and predominantly covered by old-growth tropical rainforests. Based on 165 scientific papers, specimens deposited in collections, and unpublished surveys, a total of 659 valid species and subspecies from 84 genera and 12 subfamilies is presented. Although far from complete, these numbers represent approximately 10% of the ant diversity known to occur in the Neotropical realm. Additionally, three ant genera and 119 species are reported for the first time for French Guiana. Finally, five species are recognized as erroneous records for the department in the literature. This checklist significantly expands the basic knowledge of the ants in the Guiana Shield, one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots.
Biodiversity and Conservation
Contribution of cocoa plantations to the conservation of native ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a special emphasis on the Atlantic Forest fauna of southern Bahia, Brazil2007 •
This study was carried out in a savannah/forest mosaic at the Lopé National Park, in Gabon. Ninety-six pitfall traps were used, 39 in gallery forest and 57 in savannah. The foragers of eighteen morph species were collected in both habitats: 16 in gallery forest and 15 in savannah. Wasmannia auropunctata is the most frequent in the gallery forest, recorded in 90% of the samples, against 55% in savannah. On the other hand, Pheidole megacephala was found in 80% of the samples, Camponotus negus in 75% and Polyrhachis latispina in 60%, all of them more frequent in savannah than in gallery forest. Generally speaking, the other species were found in both habitats, except Camponotus sericeus which forages only in the savannah. Interactions in the savannah are
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The extensive occupation of canopy trees by ants can be attributed to many factors, such as the presence of structures that provide food and shelter. Structures induced by other insects in host plants, like senescent galls, can provide shelter and a nesting place for many species of ants. The main objectives of this work were: (1) to describe the ant communities found in canopies of candeia trees (Eremanthus erythropappus), including the species which use galls as nesting sites; (2) verify the role of galls in determining the structure and composition of the ant communities and (3) to evaluate whether the size and shape of galls are important to the choice of nesting sites by ants. Specifically, the following questions were investigated: 1 – Are larger galls more frequently occupied by ants than smaller galls? 2 – Does gall shape (globular and fusiform) influence occupation? 3 – Which species of ants are present in the canopies of candeias and which are occupying galls? Senescent galls were collected in locations in the southern portion of the Espinhaço Mountain Range, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. In total, 3,195 galls were collected and 19 ant species were recorded. Only 176 galls (5.5%) had been occupied by ants, and these were represented by 11 species. The most frequent species found occupying galls were Myrmelachista nodigera, with 48 colonies; Nesomyrmex spininodis, with 37 colonies; and Crematogaster complex crinosa sp. 1, with 29 colonies. The ants occupied galls with greater volume and diameter. Even considering the low occupation frequency, senescent galls in E. erythropappus are used by ants, either as outstations or satellite nests of polydomic colonies, and may be important in determining ant species composition in canopy trees.
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In contrast to many myrmecophytes, which shelter ants in hollowed structures called domatia, plants bearing extrafloral nectaries do not have specific relationships with certain ant species. However, we hypothesized that different plants might be associated with different assemblages of ants. We studied three pioneer plant species from French Guiana: Passiflora glandulosa, Passiflora coccinea (Passifloraceae) and Mimosa myriadena (Mimosaceae) that occur
Acta Oecologica
Can environmental complexity predict functional trait composition of ground-dwelling ant assemblages? A test across the Amazon Basin2019 •
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Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
The ant fauna of hospitals: advancements in public health and research priorities in BrazilPapéis Avulsos de Zoologia
First survey of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Piauí: filling a major knowledge gap about ant diversity in Brazil2020 •
Check List
Check list of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the eastern Acre, Amazon, Brazil2012 •
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Effects of a Fern-Dwelling Ant Species, <I>Crematogaster difformis</I>, on the Ant Assemblages of Emergent Trees in a Bornean Tropical Rainforest2012 •
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Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
First standardized inventory of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the natural grasslands of Paraná: New records for Southern Brazil2018 •
Revista colombiana de entomología
Interactions between ants and insects in foliage of sun and shade coffee plantations, Cauca-ColombiaApplied Soil Ecology
Trade-offs between complementarity and redundancy in the use of different sampling techniques for ground-dwelling ant assemblages2012 •
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Boletín de la …
Hormigas (Hymenoptera Formicidae) asociadas al arboretum de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín2007 •
Journal of Insect Conservation
Fire effect on ground-foraging ant assemblages in northeastern Argentina2014 •
Psyche: A Journal of …
Tree-Dwelling Ants: Contrasting Two Brazilian Cerrado Plant Species without Extrafloral Nectaries2011 •
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
An overview of the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the state of Maranhão, Brazil2013 •
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
Diversity of Species and Behavior of Hymenopteran Parasitoids of Ants: A Review2012 •
Biota Neotropica
Accessing the subterranean ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in native and modified subtropical landscapes in the Neotropics2020 •
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Journal of Hospital Infection
Filamentous fungi vectored by ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a public hospital in north-eastern BrazilQuarterly Review of …
The origin of the attine ant-fungus mutualism2001 •
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