Bothroponera glabripes
Bothroponera glabripes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Bothroponera |
Species: | B. glabripes |
Binomial name | |
Bothroponera glabripes (Emery, 1893) |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Philippines (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
Estimated Abundance
Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- glabripes. Bothroponera glabripes Emery, 1893g: 262 (footnote) (w.) PHILIPPINES (Mindanao).
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Philippines: Mindanao (no collector’s name) (from Staudinger & Bang-Haas).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Misspelled as glabriceps by Wheeler, W.M. 1909d: 339.]
- Combination in Pachycondyla (Ectomomyrmex): Emery, 1901a: 46;
- combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 305;
- combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925: 67; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2; Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
- Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 77; Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925: 67; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 49; Baltazar, 1966: 240; Bolton, 1995b: 305.
- Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao).
Description
References
- Baltazar, C.R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pacific Insects Monographs 8: 1-488. (page 240, listed)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla attributed to Brown.] Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 305, Combination in Pachycondyla)
- Emery, C. 1893g. Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines (mars et avril 1890). Formicides. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 62: 259-270. (page 262, (footnote) worker described)
- Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 45: 32-54 (page 46, Combination in Pachycondyla (Ectomomyrmex))
- Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).
- Wheeler, W. M.; Chapman, J. W. 1925. The ants of the Philippine Islands. Part I, Dorylinae and Ponerinae. Philipp. J. Sci. 28: 47-73 (page 67, Combination in Bothroponera)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.