Bazboltonia

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Bazboltonia
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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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
Species 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Total Species 2851 1736 3047 932 840 4391 1767 2925

Biology

Castes

Morphology

Phylogeny

Ectatomminae
Heteroponerini

Bazboltonia  (1 species, 0 fossil species)

Acanthoponera  (4 species, 0 fossil species)

Heteroponera  (27 species, 0 fossil species)

Ectatommini

Ectatomma  (15 species, 1 fossil species)

Rhytidoponera  (104 species, 3 fossil species)

Stictoponera  (43 species, 0 fossil species)

Gnamptogenys  (32 species, 5 fossil species)

Typhlomyrmex  (11 species, 0 fossil species)

Poneracantha  (18 species, 1 fossil species)

Alfaria  (9 species, 0 fossil species)

Holcoponera  (40 species, 0 fossil species)

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.]

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