Paratopula oculata

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Paratopula oculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Paratopula
Species: P. oculata
Binomial name
Paratopula oculata
(Smith, F., 1857)

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Specimen Labels

This species is only known from queens and males.

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 2.547988° to 2.547988°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

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

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 Paratopula oculataMale (alate). Specimen code casent0901348. 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.

  • oculata. Cerapachys oculatus Smith, F. 1857a: 74, pl. 1, figs. 20-24 (m.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
    • Type-material: holotype male.
    • Type-locality: Malaysia: Sarawak (A.R. Wallace).
    • Type-depository: OXUM.
    • Bolton, 1988b: 141 (q.).
    • Combination in Sima: Emery, 1887b: 445 (footnote);
    • combination in Cerapachys: Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 139;
    • combination in Rhopalothrix: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450;
    • combination in Acanthomyrmex: Brown, 1975: 60;
    • combination in Paratopula: Bolton, 1988b: 141.
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1863: 403; Roger, 1863b: 25; Smith, F. 1871a: 329; Dalla Torre, 1893: 54; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 450; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 21; Bolton, 1988b: 141 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 312; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 48.
    • Distribution: Malaysia (Peninsula, Sarawak), Singapore.

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

Cerapachys oculatus

Holotype male in Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Labelled “SAR” (= Sarawak) (locality data not given in original description). With a Donisthorpe type-label and a det. label by him “Rhopalothrix?”

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bolton B. 1988. A review of Paratopula Wheeler, a forgotten genus of myrmicine ants (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 124: 125-143
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sheela S., 2008. First record of the rare ant Paratopula ceylonica Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Uttar Pradesh, India with a note to the genus. J. Exp. Zool. India 11(2): 423-425.
  • Smith, F. "Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 (1857): 42-88.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.