Jocely Pacheco

• John Marshall Law School

Young and mature larvae of queen and workers of the thief ant, Solenopsis helena, are herein described for the first time. Specimens were treated and described by usual methods of light and scanning electron microscopy. Many of the observed characteristics confirmed traits of the thief ant larva, reinforcing the assumption that they are a distinct...

A new ant species, Solenopsis gnoma, was found while excavating a nest of Tetramorium bicarinatum in a rotten trunk on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. The worker is golden brown with a dark brown gaster and the female is concolorous dark brown. We include a description of both the worker and female castes, key characters accompanied with illust...

New distribution records and further descriptive details are provided for Temnothorax striatulus.

Gnamptogenys flava, n. sp., was discovered in litter extractions from a montane evergreen forest in Bolivia. It is a yellow species of the sulcata group. The description of the species is included, as well as a modification of the previous key to the species and a discussion of characters that separate it from the other species in the sulcata group...

A new ant species, Gnamptogenys aspera, was found in a leaf litter extraction in a montane evergreen forest of Bolivia. This species from the striatula group is mahogany with red appendages, and fine punctures on its costulate sculpture. We include a description, key characters as well as a modified key to the species.