El Colegio de La Frontera Sur, Dpto. Conservación de La Biodiversidad, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Dpto. Apicultura, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yuacatán, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
Neotrop Entomol. 2024 Aug;53(4):997-1001. doi: 10.1007/s13744-024-01168-z. Epub 2024 Jun 14.
Several somatic and sexual anomalies such as gynandromorphism and other morphological malformations have been described in ants, but cases of supernumerary legs in natural populations are rare, with only six cases reported to date. Moreover, few cases of abnormalities have been reported for the Ponerinae subfamily, with only three cases of genetic chimeras and five teratological cases worldwide. We report here a new case of teratology in this subfamily, with a seven-legged worker pupa found in a Neoponera villosa colony nesting in an epiphytic tank bromeliad. This is the second case for Mexico of a morphological anomaly in a ponerine ant, but the first report of a teratological case in the subfamily for this country.
已在蚂蚁中描述了几种躯体和性异常，如雌雄嵌合体和其他形态畸形，但在自然种群中出现多余腿的情况很少见，迄今为止仅报告了六个案例。此外，在 Ponerin 亚科中很少有异常情况的报告，全世界只有三个遗传嵌合体和五个畸形案例。我们在这里报告了该亚科中新的畸形病例，在一个 Neoponera villosa 群体的一个附生水箱凤梨中发现了一个有七个腿的工蜂蛹。这是墨西哥第二个出现 Ponerin 蚂蚁形态异常的案例，但这是该国该亚科首例畸形病例的报告。
