Dorylus nigricans rubellus
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| Dorylus nigricans rubellus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Dorylus |
| Species: | D. nigricans |
| Subspecies: | D. nigricans rubellus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Dorylus nigricans rubellus (Savage, 1849) | |
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| Based on Kronauer et al., 2007. Note only selected Dorylus species are included, and undescribed species are excluded. |
Contents
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -3.181442° to -5.85°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on type material
"West Africa" (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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.
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.
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rubellus. Anomma rubella Savage, 1849: 196 (w.) CONGO.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Congo: Mpongive Dist., “banks of the Gaboon River, near the Equator” (T.S. Savage).
- Type-depository: ANSP (perhaps also OXUM as some specimens were sent to J.O. Westwood).
- Combination in Dorylus (Anomma): Emery, 1895j: 710.
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1910c: 352; Santschi, 1912b: 157 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 740; Santschi, 1925h: 160; Raignier & van Boven, 1955: 24, 72.
- Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 199; Roger, 1861a: 47; Roger, 1863b: 21; Mayr, 1863: 395; Scudder, 1891: 686; Forel, 1907g: 77.
- Subspecies of burmeisteri: Emery, 1892d: 554; Dalla Torre, 1893: 9; Wasmann, 1904b: 675.
- Subspecies of nigricans: Emery, 1895j: 701; Emery, 1910b: 12; Forel, 1911f: 275; Santschi, 1911g: 206; Forel, 1913h: 348; Santschi, 1930a: 56 (in list); Santschi, 1930b: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 180.
- Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Tanzania.
=Taxonomic Notes
Kronauer et al. (2007) treat this taxon as a full species rather than a subspecies.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1892f [1891]. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886. Formicides. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 60: 553-574 (page 554, Variety of burmeisteri)
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 710, Combination in Dorylus (Anomma))
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 701, Variety of nigricans)
- Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34 (page 12, Variety of nigricans)
- Forel, A. 1913i. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 57: 347-359 (page 348, Variety of nigricans)
- Kronauer, D. J. C.; Schöning, C.; Vilhelmsen, L. B.; Boomsma, J. J. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of Dorylus army ants provides evidence for multiple evolutionary transitions in foraging niche. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: Article 56 (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-56).
- Savage, T. S. 1849. The driver ants of western Africa. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 4: 195-200 (page 196, worker described)
