Lasiomyrma gracilinoda

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Lasiomyrma gracilinoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Lasiomyrma
Species: L. gracilinoda
Binomial name
Lasiomyrma gracilinoda
Terayama & Yamane, 2000

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Known only from the holotype, nothing is known about this ant's biology.

Identification

Terayama & Yamane (2000) - This species is distinguished from Lasiomyrma gedensis by the straight propedeal dorsum, the absence of an angle of anterior slope of petiolar node and the concave occipital margin of head in full face view, and from Lasiomyrma maryatiae by the thinner petiolar node, the shorter mesopleuron and the weakly produced propodeal lobe.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 2.8° to 2.8°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.

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

Nomenclature

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

  • gracilinoda. Lasiomyrma gracilinoda Terayama & Yamane, 2000: 526, figs. 9-10 (w.) BORNEO.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

HL 0.56 mm; HW 0.48 mm; SL 0.31 mm; CI 84; SI 66; WL 0.68 mm; PW 0.40 mm; PL 0.21 mm; PH 0.23 mm; DPW 0.16 mm; PPL 0.15 mm; PPH 0.18 mm; PPW 0.20mm; TL 2.1 mm.

Head 1.17 times as long as wide, coarsely punctate, with very weakly concave occipital margin in full face view; sides behind eyes subparallel. Eye 0.18 mm in maximum diameter.

Alitrunk densely punctate, with largely straight promesonotal dorsum excepting the posterior portion weakly convex, and straight propodeal dorsum; metanotal groove shallow. Mesopleuron rather short, its maximum length slightly longer than its length of ventral margin. Propodeal spine thin, longer than wide at base; propodeal declivity steep; propodeal lobe weakly produced posteriorly.

Petiole slightly higher than long, with a thin node in profile; node reversed V-shaped with a bluntly produced dorsum. Postpetiole slightly longer than high, with convex dorsal margin in profile.

Gaster with shallow small punctures that are moderately spaced, in dorsal view 0.49 mm in maximum width.

Body reddish brown; mandible and antenna yellow; legs brown.

Type Material

Holotype. Worker, Poring (600 malt.), Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, 29. X. 1996, T. Kikuta leg. Tropical Biology and Conservation Unit, Malaysia Sabah University, Kota Kinabalu.

Etymology

Named after its thin petiolar node in profile.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
  • Terayama M. ; and S. Yamane. 2000. Lasiomyrma, a new stenammine ant genus from southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Sci. 3: 523-527
  • Terayama, M., and S. Yamane. "Lasiomyrma, a new stenammine ant genus from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Entomological Science 3, no. 3 (2000): 523-527.