Adelomyrmex brenesi Longino, 2006

Longino, John T., 2012, A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America, Zootaxa 3456, pp. 1-35 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282199

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168375

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scientific name

Adelomyrmex brenesi Longino, 2006
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Adelomyrmex brenesi Longino, 2006

( Figs 4, 21 View FIGURE 21 )

Adelomyrmex brenesi 2006: 132 , figs. 1–3. Holotype worker: Costa Rica, Heredia Prov., 6 km ENE Vara Blanca (10° 11' N, 84° 07' W), 2000 m elevation, 13. III.2002, (Project ALAS) [specimen code JTLC000003382] [INBio] (examined).

Geographic range. Costa Rica.

Biology. This species is still only known from the material reported in Longino (2006). It is a montane endemic, known only from the peak of Volcan Barva. This is a forested mountaintop of relatively small area in the Cordillera Volcánica Central of Costa Rica. Adelomyrmex brenesi is restricted to a narrow elevation range at the very top of the peak, around 2000 m, and does not occur at lower elevations ( Longino & Colwell 2011). In a quantitative inventory at this site, it occurred in 13 of 150 miniWinkler samples. This is a species clearly in danger of mountaintop extinction due to climate change ( Colwell et al. 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Adelomyrmex

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