Stenamma asiaticum

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Stenamma asiaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Stenamma
Species: S. asiaticum
Binomial name
Stenamma asiaticum
Ruzsky, 1905

This taxon is considered to be unidentifiable and its identity is uncertain.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Russian Federation (type locality).

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • asiaticum. Stenamma westwoodi subsp. asiaticum Ruzsky, 1905b: 711 (w.) UZBEKISTAN.
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Uzbekistan (“Turkestan”): Syr Darya (“Syr Darinskaya obl.”), Aulisata, 2.xi.1900 (Retiger).
    • Type-depository: ZMUM.
    • [Note: holotype lost; personal communication from G.M. Dlussky to DuBois, 1998b: 310.]
    • Subspecies of westwoodii: Emery, 1908c: 307 (footnote); Emery, 1921f: 54; Arnol'di, 1928b: 215 (in key); Tarbinsky, 1976: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 393.
    • Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Stenamma: DuBois, 1998b: 310.

Description

References

  • DuBois, M. B. 1998a. A revision of the ant genus Stenamma in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 29: 193-403 (page 310, Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Stenamma)
  • Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. Tr. Obshch. Estestvoispyt. Imp. Kazan. Univ. 38(4-6 6: 1-800 (page 711, worker described)