Paratrachymyrmex phaleratus ( Wheeler, 1925 )

Mera-Rodríguez, Daniela, Serna, Francisco, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lattke, John & Rabeling, Christian, 2020, A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1205-1227 : 1223

(41) Paratrachymyrmex phaleratus ( Wheeler, 1925)

Fig. 10E, F

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Antioquia • 1 work- er; Amalfi; 06°55′00″N, 075°04′00″W; alt. 1010 m; 27 Oct. 1997; F. Sernaleg.; UNAB 5452 .

Identification. Posterolateral cephalic corner with clearly distinct spine; mid-pronotal teeth present and separated from each other at the base; third pair of me- sonotal spines distinct; and metasternal lamina dorsally rounded (unpublished key by Kempf).

Distribution. Paratrachymyrmex phaleratus was previ- ously recorded in Guyana and Venezuela ( Wheeler 1925; Mayhé-Nunes and Jaffé 1998), thus our new record for Colombia expands the geographic range of the species to the northwest Andean mountains ( Fig. 1D ).

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Figure 1. Geographic distribution of non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ant species in Colombia. A. Apterostigma pilosum species-group. B. Genus Cyphomyrmex. C. Apterostigma auriculatum species-group, and genera Mycocepurus, Myrmicocrypta, and Mycetomoellerius. D. Genera Sericomyrmex and Paratrachymyrmex.

Figure 10. Paratrachymyrmex species encountered in Colombia. A, B. Paratrachymyrmex diversus, CASENT0901693. C, D. Paratrachymyrmex irmgardae, CASENT0909392. E, F. Paratrachymyrmex phaleratus, D. Mera-Rodríguez.Photographs taken by W. Erichson and obtained from the Antweb database (http://www.antweb.org).