Labidus mars

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Labidus mars
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Labidus
Species: L. mars
Binomial name
Labidus mars
(Forel, 1912)

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Specimen labels

Subspecies
Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 10.43333333° to -28.628219°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina, Brazil (type locality), Paraguay, Peru.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0173514. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ALWC, Alex L. Wild Collection.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • mars. Eciton (Labidus) mars Forel, 1912c: 44 (s.w.) BRAZIL (Ceará).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Brazil: Ceará (Diaz da Rocha).
    • Type-depositories: MHNG, MSNG, NHMB.
    • [Eciton mars Forel, 1908e: 65. Nomen nudum.]
    • Combination in Labidus: Borgmeier, 1953: 8.
    • Status as species: Borgmeier, 1923: 43; Borgmeier, 1955: 121 (redescription); Kempf, 1969: 274; Kempf, 1972a: 127; Watkins, 1976: 8 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 220; Wild, 2007b: 25; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 226.
    • Senior synonym of nero: Nascimento, et al. 2004: 618.
    • Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay, Peru.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus denticulatus.
  • nero. Eciton (Labidus) coecum st. nero Santschi, 1930e: 82 (m.) BRAZIL (no state data).
    • Type-material: holotype male (petiole + gaster missing).
    • Type-locality: Brazil: (no further data), 15.x.1928 (Reichensperger).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Combination in Labidus: Borgmeier, 1953: 14.
    • Subspecies of coecus: Borgmeier, 1936: 58.
    • Status as species: Borgmeier, 1953: 14; Borgmeier, 1955: 127 (redescription); Kempf, 1972a: 127; Watkins, 1976: 8 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 220.
    • Junior synonym of mars: Nascimento, et al. 2004: 618.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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  • Borgmeier T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24: 33-103.
  • Borgmeier T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3: 1-720.
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  • Watkins J. F., II 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 102 pp
  • do Nascimento I. C., J. H. C. Delabie, P. S. F. Ferreira, and T. M. C. Della Lucia. 2004. Mating flight seasonality in the genus Labidus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) at Minas Gerais, in the Brazilian Atlantic forest biome, and Labidus nero, junior synonym of Labidus mars. Sociobiology. 44: 615-622.
  • do Nascimento, I.C. 2006. Fenologia dos Voos de Acasalamento em Formigas Tropicais