''Dolichoderus fernandezi'' is a species of
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,0 ...
in the genus ''
Dolichoderus
''Dolichoderus'' is a genus of ants found worldwide.
Taxonomy
The ants of the Neotropical genus ''Monacis'' were revised in 1959 by Kempf. However, Brown in 1973 and G. C. Wheeler and J. Wheeler in 1973 and 1976 considered both ''Monacis'' and ' ...
''. Described by Mackay in 1993, the species is only known in
Colombia.
[MacKay, W. P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). ''Sociobiology'' 22: 1-148 (page 54, figs. 5, 59 worker described)]
References
fernandezi
Hymenoptera of South America
Insects described in 1993
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