Azteca trigona Emery 1893

Dolichoderinae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia


queen face view

Comments

The specimen shown in the image above is a queen from Bolivia, collected by William Mann on the Mulford Expedition. It represents an extreme in Azteca queen head shape, having the proportionately broadest head of any Azteca queen I have seen. It is only tentatively identified as A. trigona, since the taxonomy of the trigona group is not well worked out. See further discussion of the trigona group under A. chartifex.

Literature Cited


Page author:

John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA. longinoj@evergreen.edu


Date of this version: 30 June 2007.
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