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Occurrence and natural history of Myrmelachista Roger (Formicidae: Formicinae) in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil

2013; BioMed Central; Volume: 86; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/s0716-078x2013000200006

0717-6317

Márcia Akemi Nakano, Vitor F. O. Miranda, Débora Rodrigues de Souza, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, Maria Santina de Castro Morini,

Insect and Pesticide Research

Information on the biology of the species in Myrmelachista remains notably scarce.The objective of this study was to report the occurrence, analyze the infl uence of canopy cover on the number of nests in twigs in the litter describe behavioral characteristics of this genus.Hand sampling was performed on trees and twigs deposited in the litter.A total of 84 nests and seven species were found.Myrmelachista ruszkii and M. catharinae were the most frequent and abundant species.In trees, most of the nests were located at the ti ps of dry twigs, and these nests were probably the source of the nests found in the litter of fragments of Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.Canopy cover is associated with the number of nests that were in twigs.