Paraparatrechina sordida

sordida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Lasiini
Genus:	Paraparatrechina
Species:	P. sordida
Binomial name
	Paraparatrechina sordida; (Santschi, 1914) Specimen Labels
Synonyms
	Pseudolasius bucculentus Wheeler, W.M., 1922; Pseudolasius gowdeyi Wheeler, W.M., 1922;

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Paraparatrechina of the Afrotropical and Malagasy Regions

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 2.916666667° to 0.064444°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Uganda (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.

sordida. Pseudolasius weissi var. sordida Santschi, 1914d: 378 (w.) GHANA. Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 219 (q.). Junior synonym of weissi: LaPolla, 2004b: 101. Revived from synonymy, raised to species and senior synonym of bucculentus, gowdeyi: LaPolla & Fisher, 2014: 150.
bucculentus. Pseudolasius bucculentus Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 222, fig. 56 (s.w.m.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Junior synonym of weissi: LaPolla, 2004b: 101; of sordida: LaPolla & Fisher, 2014: 150.
gowdeyi. Pseudolasius gowdeyi Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 223, fig. 57 (s.w.) UGANDA. Junior synonym of weissi: LaPolla, 2004b: 101; of sordida: LaPolla & Fisher, 2014: 150.

Description

References

LaPolla, J.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. Two new Paraparatrechina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) species from the Seychelles, with notes on the hypogaeic weissi species-group. ZooKeys 414, 139–155 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.414.7542)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Santschi F. 1914. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8: 309-385.