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The solution was mixed for 20min and then divided into 100mL bottles with ant exoskeleton (Supplementary Fig. Xyloglucanase activities for fecal fluid produced by large workers of Acromyrmex echinatior provided with either a normal fungus garden diet or with sucrose water for 20 days. Acromyrmex insinuator was collected from colonies of its host Acromyrmex echinatior in Gamboa, Panama. Entomol. Initial draft: H.L., C.R.C., T.R.S. We monitored sub-colonies daily to record the eclosion date for the major worker pupa until 1421 days after eclosion. 12:20160722. doi: Liberti, J., B. Baer, and J. J. Boomsma. Based on these habits, and taking phylogenetic information into consideration, these ants can be divided into six biologically distinct agricultural systems (with a list of genera involved in each category): A limited number of species that use fungi in the construction of their nests. 2018; de Castro et al., 2020; Micolino et al., 2021, Goni et al., 1983; Santos-Colares et al., 1997, Fadini & Pompolo, 1996; Teixeira et al., 2017, An unknown species is a host for thehisterid beetle, Mean colony size:1000's-10000's(Greer et al., 2021), Compound colony type:inquilinism(Greer et al., 2021), Nest site:hypogaeic; arboreal(Greer et al., 2021), Foraging stratum:subterranean/leaf litter; arboreal(Greer et al., 2021), Foraging behaviour:cooperative(Greer et al., 2021). Rev. (1998) - LECTOTYPE: Major worker. Metzler, R. A. et al. Schultz et al. 2019d. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31, 16611685, Schultner, E., Pulliainen, U. Sci. Winged Ants, The queen. The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19566-3. The fungus-growing ants of North America. It may be especially important with regard to waste management because waste often contains pathogens or hazardous toxins and worker specialisation can reduce the number of group members exposed to it. : Harvard University Press, 95 pp. Google Scholar. Practiced by species in several genera of non-leaf-cutting "higher attine" ants, which cultivate a distinct clade of leucocoprineaceous fungi separately derived from the lower attine fungi. Rev. 1998; Sumner et al. Syst. Bull. Peeters, C., Molet, M., Lin, C. C. & Billen, J. Evolution of cheaper workers in ants: a comparative study of exoskeleton thickness. All samples were then attached firmly to carbon tape on an SEM stub. Vaudoise Sci. O genero Acromyrmex no Brasil (Hym. The origin of the attine ant-fungus mutualism. The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis. R. Accad. anisopliae strain was isolated from dead fungus-growing ants in Gamboa, Panama, and grown on a pure medium of potato dextrose agar at room temperature until a full plate of spores was observed after around 7 days. Aizenberg, J., Tkachenko, A., Weiner, S., Addadi, L. & Hendler, G. Calcitic microlenses as part of the photoreceptor system in brittlestars. Specialized Metabolites Reveal Evolutionary History and Geographic Dispersion of a Multilateral Symbiosis. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 7771. These authors, as well as Santschi (1925), recognized A. octospinosus echinatior principally by the sculpture of the head and gaster of the major worker: the tubercles on the posterior corners of the head, the pedicel, and the gaster are more developed and subspiniform, and some of those on the sides of the head are distinctly curved forward (Wheeler, 1937). Fernandes, P.R. Phylogenetic position and natural history of the monotypic fungus-farming ant genus Paramycetophylax (Formicidae: Attini). Richter, A., Boudinot, B., Yamamoto, S., Katzke, J., Beutel, R. G. 2022. Systematic Entomology 44: 939956. This increased activity was similar to what was observed with exposure to reproductive tract fluid in queens. Biol. Note that the farming habits of Mycetagroicus (4 species) are unknown. Hormigas de Colombia. Samples were collected at 3, 4, or 5 time points over 4, 6, or 13 months, depending on the colony. Suisse Zool. Phylogenomic reconstruction reveals new insights into the evolution and biogeography of. Mineral. Barros, L.A.C., Aguiar, H.J.A.C., Teixeira, G.C., Souza, D.J., Delabie, J.H.C., Mariano, C.S.F. Zou, Z. et al. Genera Insectorum 174C: 207-397 (page 350, Combination in Acromyrmex), Forel, A. Gilbert, P. U. P. A. et al. The video was stopped when the soldier ant was killed and the Ac. 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CAS These fungus-feeding species are limited to North and South America, extending from the pine barrens of New Jersey, United States, in the north (Trachymyrmex septentrionalis) to the cold deserts in Argentina in the south (several species of Acromyrmex). encounter mode primary; direct transmission; transmission outside nest; as Pheidologeton sp. Graf, D. L. & Goldsmith, J. R. Some hydrothermal syntheses of dolomite and protodolomite. Species that use fungi in nest construction are known from Europe and Africa (a few species in the genera Crematogaster, Lasius). Biomineral-free Ac. Belg. Mem. Fernndez, F. and S. Sendoya. [part]. 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MALES: In the Panamanian nests, A. echinatior males are the same size as A. octospinosus males, but differ from them by the presence of a pigmented frontal triangle that is entirely delineated by rugae (unpigmented and ill-defined in A. octospinosus), the presence of setae on the propodeal dorsum (absent in A. octospinosus), and the presence of a broadly convex median anteroventral postpetiolar extension (variable in A. octospinosus). Based on Ward et al. is supported by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NNA13AA94A) and S. W. Bailey Scholarship of the Department of Geoscience. Here we examine waste management in a fungus-farming, leaf-cutting ant, Acromyrmex echinatior, in which waste management . In lowland and seasonally dry habitats there are usually one or two forms of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex. Morse, J. W., Wang, Q. Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Pp. 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