New synonymy, new species, new keys to Neivamyrmex army ants of the United States.
Author
Snelling, G. C.
Author
Snelling, R. R.
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Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute
Editor
Snelling, R. R.
Editor
Fisher, B. L.
Editor
Ward, P. S.
2007
Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions.
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Neivamyrmex andrei (Emery)
Figure 94, 124
Eciton andrei Emery
, 1901: 53 (m).
MEXICO
(no specific locality) (
MCSN
)
.
Eciton (Acamatus) andrei
: Emery, 1910: 25.
Eciton (Acamatus) oslari Wheeler
, 1908: 4 15; pl. 26, fig. 8 (m). UNITED STATES, Arizona, Nogales (lost?).
Neivamyrmex andrei
: Borgmeier, 1953: 7, 19. Borgmeier, 1955: 451 - 453 (m). Watkins, 1976: 24 (m).
Watkins, 1982: 213; (m). Watkins, 1985: 484. MacKay & MacKay, 2002: 47.
DISTRIBUTION (Map 1)
UNITED STATES: New Mexico and Arizona. MEXICO: Colima, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Vera Cruz (Watkins, 1982).
SPECIMENS EXAMINED
We have 39 United States records of this rather poorly known species.
DISCUSSION
In addition to the characters cited in the key,
N. andrei
may be separated from all other known United States species, except
N. swainsonii
, by the broad front coxae (in all our other species, they are distinctly longer than broad). As noted above, we believe that
N. agilis
will prove to be the female castes of this species.