Azteca (ant)
| Azteca | |
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| Azteca adrepens worker from Paraguay | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Azteca Forel, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Liometopum xanthochroum Roger, 1863
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 86 species | |
Azteca is a strictly Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2] The genus is very diverse and contains around 112[3] extant species and two fossil species. They are essentially arboreal and many species have mutualistic associations with particular plant species, where the genus Cecropia presents the most conspicuous association.[4] In the Brazilian Amazonia, Azteca species are associated with species of Codonanthopsis.[5]
Species
- Azteca adrepens Forel, 1911
- Azteca aesopus Forel, 1908
- Azteca alfari Emery, 1893
- †Azteca alpha Wilson, 1985
- Azteca andreae Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Azteca angusticeps Emery, 1893
- Azteca aragua Longino, 1991
- Azteca aurita Emery, 1893
- Azteca australis Wheeler, 1942
- Azteca barbifex Forel, 1906
- Azteca beltii Emery, 1893
- Azteca bequaerti Wheeler & Bequaert, 1929
- Azteca brevicornis (Mayr, 1878)
- Azteca brevis Forel, 1899
- Azteca chartifex Forel, 1896
- Azteca christopherseni Forel, 1912
- Azteca coeruleipennis Emery, 1893
- Azteca constructor Emery, 1896
- Azteca cordincola Forel, 1921
- Azteca coussapoae Forel, 1904
- Azteca crassicornis Emery, 1893
- Azteca delpini Emery, 1893
- Azteca depilis Emery, 1893
- Azteca diabolica Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Azteca duckei Forel, 1906
- Azteca duroiae Forel, 1904
- Azteca emeryi Forel, 1904
- †Azteca eumeces Wilson, 1985
- Azteca fasciata Emery, 1893
- Azteca flavigaster Longino, 2007
- Azteca forelii Emery, 1893
- Azteca foveiceps Wheeler, 1921
- Azteca gnava Forel, 1906
- Azteca godmani Forel, 1899
- Azteca goeldii Forel, 1906
- Azteca huberi Forel, 1906
- Azteca hypophylla Forel, 1899
- Azteca iheringi Forel, 1915
- Azteca instabilis (Smith, 1862)
- Azteca isthmica Wheeler, 1942
- Azteca jelskii Emery, 1893
- Azteca juruensis Forel, 1904
- Azteca lallemandi Forel, 1899
- Azteca lanuginosa Emery, 1893
- Azteca lattkei Longino, 1991
- Azteca laurae Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Azteca linamariae Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Azteca longiceps Emery, 1893
- Azteca lucida Forel, 1899
- Azteca luederwaldti Forel, 1909
- Azteca mayrii Emery, 1893
- Azteca merida Longino, 1991
- Azteca minor Forel, 1904
- Azteca muelleri Emery, 1893
- Azteca nanogyna Longino, 2007
- Azteca nigra Forel, 1912
- Azteca nigricans Forel, 1899
- Azteca oecocordia Longino, 2007
- Azteca olitrix Forel, 1904
- Azteca ovaticeps Forel, 1904
- Azteca paraensis Forel, 1904
- Azteca petalocephala Longino, 1991
- Azteca pilosula Forel, 1899
- Azteca pittieri Forel, 1899
- Azteca polymorpha Forel, 1899
- Azteca quadraticeps Longino, 2007
- Azteca salti Wheeler & Darlington, 1930
- Azteca sapii Forel, 1912
- Azteca schimperi Emery, 1893
- Azteca schumannii Emery, 1893
- Azteca sericea (Mayr, 1866)
- Azteca sericeasur Longino, 2007
- Azteca severini Emery, 1896
- Azteca snellingi Guerrero, Delabie & Dejean, 2010
- Azteca stanleyuli Forel, 1921
- Azteca stigmatica Emery, 1896
- Azteca subopaca Forel, 1899
- Azteca tachigaliae Forel, 1904
- Azteca theresiae Forel, 1899
- Azteca tonduzi Forel, 1899
- Azteca trailii Emery, 1893
- Azteca trianguliceps Forel, 1912
- Azteca trigona Emery, 1893
- Azteca ulei Forel, 1904
- Azteca velox Forel, 1899
- Azteca xanthochroa (Roger, 1863)
References
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Azteca". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Azteca". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Longino, John T. (2021), "Azteca", Encyclopedia of Social Insects, Springer, Cham, pp. 88–92, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28102-1_13, ISBN 978-3-030-28102-1, retrieved 2026-04-13
- ^ Cardoso, D.; Cristiano, M. P.; Barros, L. S.; Lopes, D.; Pompolo, S. (2012). "First cytogenetic characterization of a species of the arboreal ant genus Azteca Forel, 1978 (Dolichoderinae, Formicidae)". Comparative Cytogenetics. 6 (2): 107–14. Bibcode:2012ComCy...6..107C. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v6i2.2397. PMC 3833797. PMID 24260655.
- ^ Marini-Filho, Onildo J. (1999). "Distribution, composition, and dispersal of ant gardens and tending ants in three kinds of central Amazonian habitats". Tropical Zoology. 12 (2): 289–296. Bibcode:1999TrZoo..12..289M. doi:10.1080/03946975.1999.10539395.
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