Parasyscia sudanensis

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Parasyscia sudanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Parasyscia
Species: P. sudanensis
Binomial name
Parasyscia sudanensis
(Weber, 1942)

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Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 16° to -15.63333°.

 
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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Sudan (type locality), Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.

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.

  • sudanensis. Cerapachys sudanensis Weber, 1942a: 42, figs. 1, 12 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “one colony”).
    • Type-locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): Imatong Mts, ca 6000 ft, 1939, no. 1363 (N.A. Weber).
    • Type-depository: MCZC (perhaps also in AMNH).
    • Combination in Parasyscia: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 205.
    • Status as species: Weber, 1943c: 293; Brown, 1975: 23, 62; Bolton, 1995b: 145.
    • Senior synonym of variolosus: Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 145.
    • Distribution: Nigeria, South Sudan, Zimbabwe.
  • variolosus. Cerapachys variolosus Arnold, 1949: 261, fig. 1 (w. ergatoid q.) ZIMBABWE.
    • Type-material: 20 syntype workers, 3 syntype ergatoid queens.
    • Type-locality: Zimbabwe (“Southern Rhodesia”): Hunyani, i. (G. Arnold).
    • Type-depositories: BMNH, SAMC.
    • Junior synonym of sudanensis: Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 145.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Arnold G. 1949. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 9. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. 2: 261-275.
  • 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.
  • IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
  • Stephens S. S., P. B. Bosu, and M. R. Wager. 2016. Effect of overstory tree species diversity and composition on ground foraging ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in timber plantations in Ghana. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & management 12(1-2): 96-107.
  • Weber N. A. 1942. New doryline, cerapachyine and ponerine ants from the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 44: 40-49.
  • Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.