Ooceraea fuscior

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Ooceraea fuscior
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Ooceraea
Species: O. fuscior
Binomial name
Ooceraea fuscior
Mann, 1921

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.583° to -19.0775°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Fiji (type locality).

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

Cerapachys fuscior casent0171152 h 2 high.jpgCerapachys fuscior casent0171152 d 2 high.jpg
Not ProvidedWorker. Specimen code casent0171152. Photographer Eli M. Sarnat, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by EPEC.

Nomenclature

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

  • fuscior. Cerapachys (Syscia) cryptus subsp. fuscior Mann, 1921: 410 (w.) FIJI IS (Taveuni I.).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several small colonies”).
    • Type-locality: Fiji Is: Taveuni, Somosomo (W.M. Mann).
    • Type-depositories: MCZC, USNM.
    • Combination in Ooceraea: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 198.
    • Subspecies of crypta: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 8.
    • Status as species: Wilson, 1959b: 55; Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 143; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 26; Zhou, Chen & Chen 2020: 142 (in key).
    • Distribution: Fiji Is.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borowiec M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280.
  • Brown W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1): 1-115.
  • Mann W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499.
  • Sarnat Eli M. 2009. The Ants [Hymenoptera: Formicdiae] of Fiji: Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of an Island Arc Fauna. 80-252
  • Ward, Darren F. and James K. Wetterer. 2006. Checklist of the Ants of Fiji. Fiji Arthropods III 85: 23-47.
  • Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
  • Wilson E. O. 1959. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. VI. The tribe Cerapachyini. Pacific Insects 1: 39-57.