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Write your own comment on this book! What do you think? Write your own comment on this book Please Login or Register to write comments or use smm accounts Log in Log in Log in. On the other hand, the daily schedule of S. All nests found of the five species of fungus-farming ants morschi was the only species active throughout the whole occur in chambers excavated in the soil and their general day, without a well-marked peak of activity Fig.
Note the fungus garden suspended from the ceiling in of fungus-farming ants studied in an area of Atlantic rainforest at the the M. Yellow arrows indicate the The daily activity of M. Inversely, the daily activity of S.
Air temperature and humidity were recorded simulta- of fungus-farming ants studied in an area of Atlantic rainforest at neously during each sampling of ant activity data are means. Foraging activity is sunrise in the locality occurs at a. The two former species foraged alone or in pairs, petal of Tibouchina Aubl. We observed whereas M.
Arthropod feces, their way back to the nest. The trails of some S. Vegetable matter 1 cm in diameter; we observed workers maintaining these included dry or fresh fragments of flowers, leaves and grass, trails by removing fragments of soil pellets. Additionally, pieces of wood, leaflets, parts of flowers, and fruits Fig. The material collected for fungus-culturing by each spe- We did not observe ants harvesting fresh leaves on veg- cies is shown in greater detail in Fig. Parts of flowers were etation as in Acromyrmex and Atta , although they collected collected by S.
Leaf- dry or fresh fragments of plants on the ground. For instance, lets were collected by M. Except for M. Humidity 0. Additionally, we showed that these ants have Sericomyrmex saussurei small- to medium-sized colonies and forage exclusively on Temperature 0.
Nest architecture in attines differs among species and could be an important evolutionary trait in this group in small quantities M. Acromyrmex and Atta, the derived clades in M. Due to bers Moreira et al. Some egorized as undetermined vegetable material. Other non-leafcutters such as Mycetagroicus Fig. Total number of ied in an area of Atlantic rainforest at the Parque Estadual Serra do collected items for each species: S.
The graph includes the four main categories of sub- M. See also strates collected: arthropod feces, arthropod carcass, vegetable matter, Fig. Our results for M. Furthermore, between 50 and individuals; see Weber ; Solo- external architecture was shown to be variable among the mon et al.
As described here, nests of M. Other species of Mycetophylax, such as , and the leaf-cutters the derived genera Acromyrmex M. Solo- nest with 15 chambers Rabeling et al. Sericomyrmex mon et al. We observed a smaller number of chambers for comparison. We observed that colonies of M. This could be due to cli- ing the results by Rabeling et al. However, and abundant rain throughout the year San Martin-Gajardo occurrence of multiple queens in attine colonies does not and Morellato However, DNA We observed that the species had fungus gardens in dif- sequences of a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c ferent locations inside the chamber Table 1.
The location oxidase subunit 1 COI for M. For instance, Leal et al. Borgmeier and S. Acromyrmex e. The non-leaf-cutter attine ants A. In across seasons. Despite the differences in vegetation and general, we observed that arthropod feces and vegetable mat- climate between cerrado and Atlantic rainforest, these non- ter were the main resources collected by the ants. In leaf-cutter ants the foraging main material collected by non-leaf-cutter ants on which to rhythm is well studied and is affected by temperature and cultivate their symbiotic fungi Oliveira et al.
Additionally, although it has been reported that pressure Feener and Moss ; Orr , and type of some species of Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex also cut available resources Bochynek et al. Although M. The use of the foraging activities. Write your own comment on this book Please Login or Register to write comments or use smm accounts Log in Log in Log in. Write a comment. Other books by this author The ants of Polynesia Hymenoptera: Formicidae. The first Mesozoic ants, with the description of a new subfamily.
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