Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

Research Article

Undecomposed Twigs in the Leaf Litter as Nest-Building Resources for Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Areas of the Atlantic Forest in the Southeastern Region of Brazil

Table 3

Presence of queens and alates among the species reported in undecomposed twigs in the leaf litter of dense ombrophilous forests.
Species/morphospeciesQueensAlates
Nests with queensQueens/nestNests with alatesTotal or variation
Linepithema neotropicum 21–532–50
Brachymyrmex incisus 12——
Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus)11——
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex)——18
Camponotus sp.8————
Camponotus sp.91115
Camponotus sp.101131–16
Myrmelachista catharinae ——31–13
Myrmelachista ruszkii ——118
Crematogaster sp.121–323–14
Mycetosoritis sp.111——
Pheidole sp.68112
Pheidole sp.75123–14
Pheidole sp.911——
Pheidole sp.13231-222–4
Pheidole sp.14101——
Pheidole sp.43161–3——
Solenopsis wasmannii 11——
Solenopsis sp.2 8113
Solenopsis sp.5——21-2
Hypoponera sp.711——
Pseudomyrmex pallidus 11——