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| Acropyga and Azteca ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with scale insects (Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea) : 20 million years of symbiosis. American Museum novitates ; no. 3335 |
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| Title: | Acropyga and Azteca ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with scale insects (Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea) : 20 million years of symbiosis. American Museum novitates ; no. 3335 |
| Authors: | Johnson, Christine. Agosti, Donat. Delabie, Jacques H. Dumpert, Klaus. Williams, D. J. von Tschirnhaus, Michael. Maschwitz, Ulrich. |
| Issue Date: | 2001 |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates ; no. 3335 |
| Abstract: | "Species of the genus Acropyga are rarely encountered subterranean ants that rely on mealybugs or aphids to provide their nutritional needs. Female Acropyga (Formicinae) alates of pantropical and Mediterranean species carry mealybugs with their mandibles while swarming and probably inoculate their new nests with these mealybugs. The natural history of Acropyga and other mealybug-tending ant species, a summary of the various reports of Acropyga females toting mealybugs, and a new record from French Guiana are presented here. Also provided are a first report and description of Acropyga alates with mealybugs in Dominican amber dated to the Miocene, a discovery indicating that this intimate association and relatively uncommon behavior has existed for at least 15-20 million years. The mealybugs found with the Acropyga females in amber are related to the hypogaeic genera Eumyrmococcus Silvestri and Neochavesia Williams & Granara de Willink (Pseudococcidae, Rhizoecinae) and represent three ne... |
| Description: | 18 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-16). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/2888 |
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