Parvaponera darwinii africana

Parvaponera darwinii africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Parvaponera
Species:	P. darwinii
Subspecies:	P. darwinii africana
Trinomial name
Parvaponera darwinii africana (Forel, 1909)

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 0.516667° to 0.516667°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo (type locality), Kenya, Nigeria.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• africana. Euponera (Pseudoponera) darwini var. africana Forel, 1909b: 51 (q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: Luki (A. Jullien).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Santschi, 1914b: 51 (m.).
  • Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911d: 86;
  • combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 302;
  • combination in Parvaponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 200.
  • Subspecies of darwinii: Emery, 1911d: 86; Santschi, 1914b: 51; Santschi, 1914d: 318; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 85, 778; Santschi, 1930a: 55; Santschi, 1935b: 261; Santschi, 1937b: 95; Menozzi, 1942: 166; Eidmann, 1944: 469; Menozzi & Consani, 1952: 60; Bolton, 1995b: 302; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 220.
  • Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria.

References

• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla attributed to Brown.] Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 302, Combination in Pachycondyla)
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 86, Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus))
• Forel, A. 1909b. Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 53: 51-73 (page 51, queen described)
• Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. (page 51, male described)
• Santschi, F. 1937b. Résultats entomologiques d'un voyage au Cameroun. Formicides récoltés par Mr. le Dr. F. Zumpt. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 17: 93-104 (page 95, Stirps of darwinii)
• Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).