Cryptopone ochracea

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Cryptopone ochracea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Cryptopone
Species: C. ochracea
Binomial name
Cryptopone ochracea
(Mayr, 1855)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Notes on the biology of this rarely encountered species are provided by Purkart & Repta (2022).

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 46.012324° to -22.16666985°.

     
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia.
Palaearctic Region: Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Italy (type locality), Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye.

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

Flight Period

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Source: Purkart & Repta, 2022.

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Ponera ochraceaQueen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0915271. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • ochracea. Ponera ochracea Mayr, 1855: 390 (footnote) (q.) ITALY.
    • Type-material: holotype queen.
    • Type-locality: none specified.
    • [Note: type-locality Italy (“Kirchenstaat”), after text in Mayr, 1855: 289.]
    • Type-depository: MNHU?
    • [Misspelled as choracea by Ceballos, 1956: 295.]
    • Emery, 1869b: 12 (w.); André, 1882c: 243 (m.).
    • Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
    • combination in Euponera (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1909c: 364;
    • combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911d: 86;
    • combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424;
    • combination in Cryptopone: Brown, 1963: 6.
    • Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 83; Roger, 1860: 285; Mayr, 1861: 55; Roger, 1863b: 16; Mayr, 1863: 449; Emery, 1869b: 12; Dours, 1873: 167; Emery, 1878b: 49; Mayr, 1879: 663 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 455; André, 1882c: 241 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 40; Emery, 1895b: 61; Forel, 1895d: 229; Ruzsky, 1905b: 758; Emery, 1909c: 364; Santschi, 1910e: 649; Emery, 1911d: 86; Emery, 1916b: 105; Bondroit, 1918: 81; Müller, 1921: 48; Menozzi, 1922b: 324; Müller, 1923b: 24; Menozzi, 1925d: 24; Vandel, 1926: 196; Karavaiev, 1927a: 282; Arnol’di, 1932b: 52; Grandi, 1935: 98; Menozzi, 1936d: 269; Bernard, 1950a: 2; Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 39; Ceballos, 1956: 295; Pisarski, 1967: 377; Bernard, 1967: 83 (redescription); Kutter, 1968a: 59; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 54; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 13; Kutter, 1977c: 28; Collingwood, 1978: 75 (in key); Arnol’di & Dlussky, 1978: 524 (in key); Collingwood, 1985: 239; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 52; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 264 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 174; Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c: 434; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 67; Mei, 1992a: 414; Bolton, 1995b: 166; Poldi, et al. 1995: 2; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 310; Espadaler, 1997b: 32; Csösz, 2003: 153; Bračko, 2006: 134; Markó, Sipos, et al. 2006: 69; Petrov, 2006: 83 (in key); Bračko, 2007: 17; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 45; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 144; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 144; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 498; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 5; Csösz, et al. 2011: 56; Legakis, 2011: 3; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 491; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 29; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2013: 352; Borowiec, L. 2014: 70 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 402; Radchenko, 2016: 73; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Seifert, 2018: 147.
    • Distribution: Bulgaria, Croatia, France (+ Corsica), Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy (+ Sardinia, Sicily), Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain (+ Balearics), Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus sicula.

Description

References

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