Mycetosoritis

	Mycetosoritis
	; Mycetosoritis hartmanni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Kingdom :	Eumetazoi
No rank :	Bilateral symmetrical
No rank :	Primary
No rank :	Molting
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Tracheo-breathing
Overclass :	Six-legged
Grade:	Insects
Subclass :	Winged insects
Infraclass :	Winged insects
Treasure :	Fully Transformed Insects
Squadron :	Hymenopterida
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder :	Belly-bellied
Infrastructure :	Stinging
Superfamily :	Formicoidea
Family:	Ants
Subfamily :	Myrmycins
Tribe :	Attini
Gender:	Mycetosoritis
International scientific name
	Mycetosoritis Wheeler , 1907

Mycetosoritis (lat.) - the genus of ants of the tribe of the fungi aquatic Attini from the subfamily Myrmicinae . Characterized by their close symbiosis with mushrooms grown in anthills. Small monomorphic ants, a body with tubercle protrusions, covered with plentiful curved hairs. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of two segments: the petiolus and postpetiolus (the latter is clearly separated from the abdomen), the sting is developed, pupae are naked (without cocoon). The nest consists of several camera cells located vertically in the soil. Slices of fruit are used as a substrate for mycelium ^[2] .

Content

Distribution

The genus is characteristic exclusively of the New World ( Argentina , Brazil , USA ) ^[2] .

Classification

The genus includes about 5 species:

Mycetosoritis aspera (Mayr, 1887)
Mycetosoritis clorindae (Kusnezov, 1949)
Mycetosoritis explicata Kempf, 1968 ^[3]
Mycetosoritis hartmanni (Wheeler, 1907)
Mycetosoritis vinsoni Mackay, 1998

Notes

↑ Wheeler, WM 1907: The fungus-growing ants of North America. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 669–807.
↑ ¹ ² Hölldobler B. , Wilson EO The Ants . - Harvard University Press, 1990. - P. 606. - 732 p. - ISBN 0674040759 .
↑ Sosa-Calvo, J., Brady, SG & Schultz, TR (2009) The gyne of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis explicata. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 18, 113-120.

Literature

B. Bolton, A new general catalog of the ants of the world , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Links

Mushroom Ants Attini

[1] Wheeler, WM 1907: The fungus-growing ants of North America. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 669–807.

[Ants-2] ¹ ² Hölldobler B. , Wilson EO The Ants . - Harvard University Press, 1990. - P. 606. - 732 p. - ISBN 0674040759 .

[Sosa2009-3] Sosa-Calvo, J., Brady, SG & Schultz, TR (2009) The gyne of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis explicata. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 18, 113-120.