Bazboltonia
Bazboltonia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
Tribe: | Heteroponerini |
Genus: | Bazboltonia Camacho & Feitosa, 2022 |
Type species | |
Heteroponera microps, now Bazboltonia microps | |
Diversity | |
1 species (Species Checklist, Species by Country) |
At a Glance | • Monotypic |
Identification
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Keys including this Genus
Distribution
Distribution and Richness based on AntMaps
Species by Region
Number of species within biogeographic regions, along with the total number of species for each region.
Afrotropical Region | Australasian Region | Indo-Australian Region | Malagasy Region | Nearctic Region | Neotropical Region | Oriental Region | Palaearctic Region | |
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Species | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Total Species | 2851 | 1736 | 3047 | 932 | 840 | 4391 | 1767 | 2925 |
Biology
Castes
Morphology
Phylogeny
Ectatomminae |
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See Phylogeny of Ectatomminae for details.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- [Note: Borgmeier does not indicate which of the three dates refers to the holotype.]
- Combination in Boltonia: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 14;
- combination in Bazboltonia: Camacho & Feitosa, 2022: 449.
- Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Venezuela.
- Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 196, 257; Kempf, 1962a: 46; Kempf, 1972a: 117; Brandão, 1991: 346; Fernández, 1993: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 212; Wild, 2007b: 29; Arias-Penna & Fernández, 2008: 116; Feitosa, 2015c: 98; Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 676; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 14.
- Type-depositories: MZSP (holotype); MCZC, MZSP (paratypes).
- Type-locality: holotype Brazil: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, x.1953, iv.1954, ix.1955 (F. Plaumann); paratypes with same data.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 2 paratype workers.
Taxonomic history
- [Replacement name for Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa, in Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 14; junior homonym of †Boltonia Pruvost, 1919: (page?) (Orthoptera.]
References
- Camacho, G.P., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. Bazboltonia nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied Neotropical ant genus Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa 2022 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5116(3): 449-450 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5116.3.9).
- Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).