Biodiversity

New records of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) for Colombia

Colombia is a country with a high diversity of ants; however, several new taxa are still being reported for the country. Forty seven new records for the country are registered here, all in the subfamily Myrmicinae: one new species record for the …

First Record of the Genus _Mycetarotes_ (Emery, 1913) (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Colombia

The genus _Mycetarotes_ is a fungus-growing ant (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) mostly recorded south of the Amazon: in southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. Here we report the first record of this genus in Colombia: _M. parallelus_ …