Dacetinops concinnus

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Dacetinops concinnus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Dacetinops
Species: D. concinnus
Binomial name
Dacetinops concinnus
Taylor, 1965

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.033333333° to 1.633333333°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.
Oriental Region: Thailand.

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

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Male (alate). Specimen code casent0172452. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.
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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172453. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0172454. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Nomenclature

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

  • concinnus. Dacetinops concinna Taylor, 1965c: 1, figs. 1-2 (w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 3 paratype workers (1 fragmentary).
    • Type-locality: holotype Malaysia: Sarawak, 3rd Division, Kapit Dist., Nanga Tekalit Camp, 1°38’N, 113°35’E, 29.i.1963, dead log (A.E. & E. Emerson).
    • Type-depository: MCZC.
    • Taylor, 1985: 60 (q.m.); Imai, et al. 1984: 68 (k.).
    • Status as species: Taylor, 1985: 59 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 168; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 19; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 46; Satria & Herwina, 2020: 83; Khachonpisitsak, et al. 2020: 94.
    • Distribution: Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra), Malaysia (Peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak), Thailand.

Description

Karyotype

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  • 2n = 16 (Malaysia) (Imai et al., 1983).

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Jaitrong W.; Nabhitabhata, J. 2005. A list of known ant species of Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(1): 9-54.
  • Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
  • Taylor R. W. 1965. A new species of the ant genus Dacetinops from Sarawak. Breviora 237: 1-4.
  • Taylor, R. W. 1985. The ants of the Papuasian genus Dacetinops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pp. 41-67 in: Ball, G. E. (ed.) 1985. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of beetles and ants: a volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., 1904-1983. Series Entomologica (Dordrecht) 33:1-514.
  • Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2013. Impacts of Intensive Logging on the Trophic Organisation of Ant Communities in a Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60756. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060756
  • Woodcock P., D. P. Edwards, T. M. Fayle, R. J. Newton, C. Vun Khen, S. H. Bottrell, and K. C. Hamer. 2011. The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 366: 3256-3264.