Formica propatula Francoeur, 1973

Aguilar-Mendez, Mario J., Rosas-Mejia, Madai, Vasquez-Bolanos, Miguel, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Gloria Angelica & Janda, Milan, 2021, New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60630-60630 : 60630

Formica propatula Francoeur, 1973

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; reproductiveCondition: non-reproductive; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; genus: Formica ; scientificNameAuthorship: Francoeur 1973; Location : country: Mexico; stateProvince: Michoacán; locality: Encinar Quiroga ; verbatimElevation: 2431 m; decimalLatitude: 19.701824; decimalLongitude: -101.468782; Identification: identifiedBy: Aguilar-Méndez M.J.; Rosas-Mejía M.; Vásquez-Bolaños M.; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collecting; year: 2017; month: 8; day: 26; habitat: oak forest

Distribution

Formica propatula Francoeur, 1973 were found in an oak forest near Quiroga, Michoacán de Ocampo with 16 ºC of amt and 67.4 mm/cm2 of amp. Formica propulata have been exclusively recorded in Mexico in Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Mexico State, Mexico City and Coahuila. Recently, F. propatula has been found associated with a template oak forest and agricultural land in Tlaxcala ( Cuautle et al. 2020).