Ants of Chiapas, Mexico

Report by John T. (Jack) Longino, The Evergreen State College.

This is a partial list of the ants of Chiapas, Mexico. It is not an exhaustive list based on literature and museum holdings. It is based on specimen records currently in the AntWeb database. Much of the material listed comes from litter samples that Bob Anderson took in the early 1990's. These were processed by myself and students from The Evergreen State College, particularly David Hartley in the mid 1990's and recently the students working on Project LLAMA: Duke Brady, Brittany Broyles, D. J. Cox, and Jesse McAlpine. It also includes material that Michael Branstetter processed from his 2007 collections.

This is a static webpage with links to the AntWeb species pages, where you can see distribution maps on Google Earth. If links are dead, that means the database has changed as hypotheses of species boundaries evolve and names change.

The LLAMA project has not emphasized arboreal ants. Stacy Philpott and colleagues have been working on ants of Chiapas coffee plantations. Stacy has a website (click here) with images of ants from their study sites in Chiapas, and arboreal ants are much more represented.

Sierra Morena
Quetzal
Coapilla
Huitepec/Bazom
Metzabok
Nahá
Salto de Agua
Playón de la Gloria

Agroecomyrmecinae

Amblyoponinae

Cerapachyinae

Dolichoderinae

Ecitoninae

Ectatomminae

Formicinae

Heteroponerinae

Leptanilloidinae

Myrmicinae

Ponerinae

Proceratiinae

Pseudomyrmecinae

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

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