Wadeura pauli

Wadeura pauli (Fernandes & Delabie, 2019) Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061751; recordedBy: Brahyam Quimbaya; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: D22755A5-0B4F-516A-8D4B-5B5650603D66; Taxon: scientificName: Wadeura pauli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Wadeura; specificEpithet: pauli; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fernandes & Delabie, 2019); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Av. Caraño, Fca. El Chorro; verbatimElevation: 739 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°44'28.9"N 75°39'12.8"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2022-12-08; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000061987; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 72598922-4891-5DDD-ACB7-7787D7620C0A; Taxon: scientificName: Wadeura pauli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Wadeura; specificEpithet: pauli; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fernandes & Delabie, 2019); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. Sucre, Fca. Carlos Endo; verbatimElevation: 998 m; locationRemarks: From 0 cm to 10 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°47'44.4"N 75°38'46.5"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-02-09; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: LEUA- 00000062000; recordedBy: Brandon S. Arredondo; individualCount: 1; sex: female; occurrenceID: 32D248E8-C736-5CE1-868B-9B75DAB5ABE2; Taxon: scientificName: Wadeura pauli; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Formicidae; genus: Wadeura; specificEpithet: pauli; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fernandes & Delabie, 2019); Location: continent: South America; country: Colombia; countryCode: CO; stateProvince: Caquetá; county: Florencia; locality: Vda. San Francisco, Fca. La Esmeralda; verbatimElevation: 661 m; locationRemarks: From 10 cm to 20 cm deep in the ground; verbatimCoordinates: 01°43'00.6"N 75°35'37.7"W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: samplingProtocol: Monolite / TSBF; eventDate: 2023-04-19; Record Level: language: es; collectionID: RNC: 270; institutionCode: Universidad de la Amazonia (UDLA); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Diagnosis This species is distinguished by the mandible triangular; ventral margin of petiole less symmetrical; ventral margin of petiole a triangular lobe with pronounced anterior tooth (Fig. 21). Distribution This is the first record of the species in Colombia, previously known from Guyana and Brazil, with records from only two localities, respectively (Branstetter and Longino 2022). Biology W. pauli was collected 20 cm deep on the ground, in the cloud forest of the Andean-Amazonian transition zone in Caquetá. Notes The population of W. pauli found in this study resemble morphologically the holotype, the shape of the subpeciolar process and dentition of the mandible matching the description of the species. Some specimens present a slight variation in pilosity, with areas of dense erect and suberect pilosity on the lateral margins of the head and dorsum of the mesosoma. In dorsal view, the petiole has a wider anterior face giving a trapezoidal shape to the petiole.