Ectatomma goninion

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Ectatomma goninion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Ectatomma
Species: E. goninion
Binomial name
Ectatomma goninion
Kugler, C. & Brown, 1982

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Specimen Labels

Photo Gallery

  • Ectatomma goninion worker foraging in leaf litter, Choco region, Ecuador. Photo by Philipp Hönle.

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.26583° to -1.80444°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Colombia (type locality), Ecuador.

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

Association with Other Organisms

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  • This species is a host for the phorid fly Apocephalus catholicus (a parasite) (Brown et al., 2015) (injured).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • goninion. Ectatomma goninion Kugler, C. & Brown, 1982: 5, fig. 1 (w.q.) COLOMBIA, ECUADOR.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers (number not stated), 2 paratype queens.
    • Type-locality: holotype worker Colombia: Chaco Dept., along Rio Torito, 10 km. SW San Jose del Palmar, Finca Los Guaduales, 760 m. (C. Kugler); paratypes: workers, 1 queen with same data, 1 queen with same data but 800 m., 2.vi.1978 (C. Kugler), 1 worker Ecuador: Pichincha Prov., Tinalandia, 16 km. SE Santo Domingo de los Colorados (S. & J. Peck), 2 workers Ecuador: Pichincha Prov., Rio Palenque, University of Miami Research Station (G. Umphrey).
    • Type-depositories: MCZC (holotype); BMNH, CUIC, MCZC, MNHN, MZSP, USNM (paratypes).
    • Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 341; Fernández, 1991: 554 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 186; Arias-Penna, 2008b: 62; Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 665; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 10.
    • Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Arias-Penna T. M. 2008. Subfamilia Ectatomminae. Pp. 53-107 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
  • Brandao, C.R.F. 1991. Adendos ao catalogo abreviado das formigas da regiao neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 35: 319-412.
  • Fernández F., E. E. Palacio, W. P. Mackay, and E. S. MacKay. 1996. Introducción al estudio de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Colombia. Pp. 349-412 in: Andrade M. G., G. Amat García, and F. Fernández. (eds.) 1996. Insectos de Colombia. Estudios escogidos. Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 541 pp
  • Fernández F., and T. M. Arias-Penna. 2008. Las hormigas cazadoras en la región Neotropical. Pp. 3-39 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
  • Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
  • Scott-Santos, C.P., F.A. Esteves, C.R.F. Brandao. 2008. Catalogue of "Poneromorph" ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 48(11):75-88.
  • Valdes-Rodriguez S., P. Chacon de Ulloa, and I. Armbrecht. 2014. Soil ant species in Gorgona Island, Colombian Pacific. Rev. Biol. Trop. 62 (1): 265-276.