First Record of Lenomyrmex inusitatus

The rarely collected ant Lenomyrmex inusitatus Fernández 2001 is recorded for the first time in Ecuador. The queen is described. The new record is the southernmost limit of distribution for the genus. A key to the workers of the six Lenomyrmex species and a key for the known queens are provided

Hormigas de Colombia

El propósito del libro es ofrecer información actualizada en aspectos de sistemática, filogenia, morfología, métodos de captura y estudio y biología de las hormigas en general. Así como una sinopsis de las especies conocidas del país, con claves y diagnosis para las subfamilias y géneros, incluso para las especies esperadas; esta incluye distribución por departamentos. El presente libro es el resultado de 30 años de investigación, con 37 capítulos escritos por 64 autores de 7 países; la mayoría de ellos autoridades mundiales en sus campos de acción

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure

Many studies have focused on the impacts of climate change on biological assemblages, yet little is known about howclimate interacts with other major anthropogenic influences on biodiversity, such as habitat disturbance. Using a unique global database of 1128 local ant assemblages, we examined whether climate mediates the effects of habitat disturbance on assemblage structure at a global scale. Species richness and evenness were associated positively with temperature, and negatively with disturbance. However, the interaction among temperature, precipitation and disturbance shaped species richness and evenness. The effectwas manifested through a failure of species richness to increase substantially with temperature in transformed habitats at low precipitation. At low precipitation levels, evenness increased with temperature in undisturbed sites, peaked at medium temperatures in disturbed sites and remained low in transformed sites. In warmer climates with lower rainfall, the effects of increasing disturbance on species richness and evenness were akin to decreases in temperature of up to 98C. Anthropogenic disturbance and ongoing climate change may interact in complicated ways to shape the structure of assemblages, with hot, arid environments likely to be at greatest risk. © 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved

Distribution and Diversity of the Cryptic Ant Genus Oxyepoecus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Paraguay with Descriptions of Two New Species

We discuss the diversity and distribution of the ant genus Oxyepoecus in Paraguay. Oxyepoecus inquilinus is recorded for the first time, and new distribution data are given for O. rastratus and O. vezenyii. Published data for O. bruchi, O. rastratus, O. reticulatus, and O. vezenyii are summarized. Two new species are described (O. bidentatus n. sp. and O. striatus n. sp.), and a key to the workers of the seven Paraguayan Oxyepoecus species is provided. At Teniente Enciso National Park, four species cooccur. This locality appears as a promising site for studies documenting the biology of this poorly known ant genus, and because of the IUCN “vulnerable“ Red List classification of O. inquilinus, the importance of the Teniente Enciso National Park for biological conservation is clearly established

Ant Communities: Structure, Diversity and Distribution

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Uso de las hormigas para monitorear las perturbaciones de la selva tropical de los Andes ecuatorianos causadas por los cambios atmosféricos

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Subfamilies and genera of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador

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Subfamilias y géneros de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) presentes en el Parque Nacional Podocarpus

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Localisations et exaltations de la lumière dans des structures métalliques sub-longueur d'onde

Ce travail de thèse, essentiellement théorique et basé sur une approche modale, porte sur les propriétés optiques de surfaces métalliques comportant un certain nombre de gravures de profil rectangulaire dont les dimensions sont inférieures à la longueur d'onde de la lumière incidente. Ces surfaces présentent des anomalies de réflexion liées à des exaltations locales du champ électromagnétique, dues notamment à des résonances de type Fabry-Pérot à l'intérieur des sillons. L'analyse du problème d'un couple de cavités sub-longueur d'onde, couplées en champ proche, montre comment on peut générer des "points chauds" et contrôler la localisation de la lumière à l'échelle sub-longueur d'onde. Les applications sont de première importance: commutation optique, adressage quantitatif de la lumière, diffusion Raman exaltée en surface (SERS)... On s'intéresse également aux effets de localisations liés au désordre structurel: la rupture de symétrie d'un arrangement périodique génère différents jeux d'allumage des cavités, très sensibles à la fréquence d'excitation. Certaines prédictions théoriques sont étayées expérimentalement. Enfin, le cas des réseaux lamellaires très fortement sub-longueur d'onde est examiné, en lien avec l'Absorption Optique Anormale et l'effet SERS observés sur certains films métalliques rugueux. Les exaltations géantes du champ électrique, calculées dans les nano-cavités par la méthode modale exacte, dans le domaine visible, s'expliquent par l'excitation de plasmons-polaritons de surface dont les vecteurs d'onde sont très supérieurs à ceux de la lumière.GRENOBLE1-BU Sciences (384212103) / SudocSudocFranceF