TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphological and genetic evidence supports the separation of two tapinoma ants (Formicidae, dolichoderinae) from the atlantic forest biome
AU - Escárraga, Mayron E.
AU - Lattke, John E.
AU - Pie, Marcio R.
AU - Guerrero, Roberto J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Formigas of the Universidade Federal do Paraná and the Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais for support in the laboratory and field activities. We thank the Centro de Microscopia Eletrônica-Universidade Federal do Paraná for the support and use of the equipment for the generation of SEM micrographs. We also thank André Olivotto and Patricia Ströher for guidance with laboratory work and molecular analyses. Many thanks are due to Jack Longino for his comments and suggestions that greatly improved this manuscript. We are also grateful to Robert Forsyth (copy editor) for providing comments on the accepted version of the manuscript. We are very grateful to each of the curators who kindly sent or allowed us to study the Tapinoma ants in the collections they hold: Bernard Landry, Beto Brandão, Bill Mackay, Jack Longino, Jacques Delabie, Phil S. Ward, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, and Ted S. Schultz. RJG is grateful to Bernard Landry for sending some of the ant types of Forel from the MHNG to the lab of Phil S. Ward (University of California - Davis). We wish to thank Rodolfo Probst and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that substantially improved this manuscript. RJG also gives thanks to Phil S. Ward and Ted S. Schultz for allowing the use of equipment and other resources in their labs. RJG was supported by Colciencias-Universidad del Magdalena through agreement #008-2015 (Systematics and Evolution of the Ant Genus Tapinoma Föer-ster (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in the Neotropical Region). We thank the Office of “Editorial Unimagdalena” for support to pay the publication fees. This is Scientific Contribution No.19 from the CBUMAG.
Funding Information:
We thank the Laborat?rio de Sistem?tica e Biologia de Formigas of the Universidade Federal do Paran? and the Laborat?rio de Ecologia de Insetos of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais for support in the laboratory and field activities. We thank the Centro de Microscopia Eletr?nica-Universidade Federal do Paran? for the support and use of the equipment for the generation of SEM micrographs. We also thank Andr? Olivotto and Patricia Str?her for guidance with laboratory work and molecular analyses. Many thanks are due to Jack Longino for his comments and suggestions that greatly improved this manuscript. We are also grateful to Robert Forsyth (copy edi-tor) for providing comments on the accepted version of the manuscript. We are very grateful to each of the curators who kindly sent or allowed us to study the Tapinoma ants in the collections they hold: Bernard Landry, Beto Brand?o, Bill Mackay, Jack Longino, Jacques Delabie, Phil S. Ward, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, and Ted S. Schultz. RJG is grateful to Bernard Landry for sending some of the ant types of Forel from the MHNG to the lab of Phil S. Ward (University of California-Davis). We wish to thank Rodolfo Probst and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that substantially improved this manuscript. RJG also gives thanks to Phil S. Ward and Ted S. Schultz for allowing the use of equipment and other resources in their labs. RJG was supported by Colciencias-Universidad del Magdalena through agreement #008-2015 (Systematics and Evolution of the Ant Genus Tapinoma F?er-ster (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in the Neotropical Region). We thank the Office of ?Editorial Unimagdalena? for support to pay the publication fees. This is Scientific Contribution No.19 from the CBUMAG.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The taxonomic boundaries of many Neotropical ant species of the genus Tapinoma are still unclear. Tap-inoma atriceps and T. atriceps breviscapum are two morphologically similar taxa which occur sympatrically in the southern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Some characters such as the scape length and head shape suggest that these taxa may be different species. We used DNA analysis and morphological evidence, including scanning electron microscopy, to evaluate the taxonomic validity of these taxa. We found distinct morphological characteristics that allow separating them as two different species, Tapinoma atriceps and Tapinoma breviscapum status novo, and this decision is supported by the DNA results, where Tapinoma atriceps was recovered as a lineage independent of T. breviscapum.
AB - The taxonomic boundaries of many Neotropical ant species of the genus Tapinoma are still unclear. Tap-inoma atriceps and T. atriceps breviscapum are two morphologically similar taxa which occur sympatrically in the southern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Some characters such as the scape length and head shape suggest that these taxa may be different species. We used DNA analysis and morphological evidence, including scanning electron microscopy, to evaluate the taxonomic validity of these taxa. We found distinct morphological characteristics that allow separating them as two different species, Tapinoma atriceps and Tapinoma breviscapum status novo, and this decision is supported by the DNA results, where Tapinoma atriceps was recovered as a lineage independent of T. breviscapum.
KW - Cryptic diversity
KW - Haplotype network
KW - Intraspecific variation
KW - Mitochondrial DNA
KW - Neglected taxon
KW - Phylogenetic reconstruction
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U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.1033.59880
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.1033.59880
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85105520513
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2021
SP - 35
EP - 62
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 1033
ER -