Mesoponera rubra

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Mesoponera rubra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Mesoponera
Species: M. rubra
Binomial name
Mesoponera rubra
(Smith, F., 1857)

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.033333333° to -11.61666679°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia.
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Singapore (type locality).
Oriental Region: Thailand.

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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Holotype of Pachycondyla rubraQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0901349. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by OUM, Oxford, UK.

Nomenclature

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

  • rubra. Ponera rubra Smith, F. 1857a: 66 (q.) SINGAPORE.
    • Type-material: holotype queen.
    • Type-locality: Singapore: “SING 7” (A.R. Wallace).
    • Type-depository: OXUM.
    • Imai, et al. 1984: 67 (k.); Tjan, et al. 1986: 57 (k.).
    • Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
    • combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 309;
    • combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 86; Mayr, 1863: 450; Smith, F. 1871a: 321; Dalla Torre, 1893: 42; Emery, 1893g: 259; Emery, 1911d: 81; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 447; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 309; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 31; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 57.
    • Distribution: Singapore, Thailand.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus javana.

The following notes on F. Smith type specimens have been provided by Barry Bolton (details):

Ponera rubra

Holotype dealate queen in Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Labelled “SING. 7” and with a Donisthorpe type-label.

Description

Karyotype

  • n = 10, 2n = 20 (Indonesia) (Imai et al., 1985; Mariano et al., 2015) (as Pachycondyla rubra).
  • 2n = 38 (Malaysia) (Imai et al., 1983) (as Pachycondyla rubra).
  • 2n = 40 (Malaysia) (Imai et al., 1983) (as Pachycondyla rubra).
  • 2n = 20 (Sarawak) (Tjan et al., 1986) (as Pachycondyla rubra).

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
  • Imai H. T., M. Kubota, W. L. Brown, Jr., M. Ihara, M. Tohari, and R. I. Pranata. 1985. Chromosome observations on tropical ants from Indonesia. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 35: 46-48.
  • Jaitrong W., and T. Ting-Nga. 2005. Ant fauna of Peninsular Botanical Garden (Khao Chong), Trang Province, Southern Thailand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(2): 137-147.
  • 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
  • Sagata, K., A.L. Mack, D.D. Wright and P.J. Lester. 2010. The influence of nest avaiability on the abundance and diversity of twig-dwelling ants in a Papua New Guinea forest. Insectes Sociaux 57:333-341
  • Tjan K. N., H. T. Imai, M. Kubota, W. L., Jr., Brown, W. H. Gotwald, H.-S. Yong, and C. Leh. 1986. Chromosome observations of Sarawak ants. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 36: 57-58.
  • Wheeler, William Morton. 1924. Ants of Krakatau and Other Islands in the Sunda Strait. Treubia. 5(1-3):1-20.
  • Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2013. Impacts of Intensive Logging on the Trophic Organisation of Ant Communities in a Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60756. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060756
  • Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, T. M. Fayle, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2011. The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 366: 3256-3264.