Abstract

MAYHE-NUNES, Antonio José  and  MARIA LANZIOTTI, Adriana. Description of the female and male of Mycetarotes carinatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Rev. biol. trop [online]. 2004, vol.52, n.1, pp.109-114. ISSN 0034-7744.

We describe the female and male of the Neotropical fungus-growing ant Mycetarotes carinatus, hitherto only known from type locality, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, based on samples of workers. The sexual forms were obtained from a nest maintained in the laboratory. The samples found in Minas Gerais state, expand the geographic distribution of the species. We illustrate the external architecture of the nest of M. carinatus

Keywords : Brazil; Attini; fungus-growing ant; nest; taxonomy.