Fulakora cleae

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Fulakora cleae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Tribe: Amblyoponini
Genus: Fulakora
Species: F. cleae
Binomial name
Fulakora cleae
(Delabie, 2002)

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Specimen labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -14.95861111° to -14.959°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil (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

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Amblyopone cleae casent0102202 head 1.jpgAmblyopone cleae casent0102202 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone cleae casent0102202 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone cleae casent0102202 label 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code casent0102202. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

  • cleae. Amblyopone cleae Delabie, in Lacau & Delabie, 2002: 34, figs. 1-2 (w.q.m.l.) BRAZIL (Bahia).
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 14 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen.
    • Type-locality: holotype Brazil: Bahia, Itororo (ca 1 km. N Fazenda Engenho Novo), 600 m., 14°57’31’’S, 40°02’33’’W, 20.vii.2000, nest 1 (S. Lacau); paratypes with same data.
    • Type-depositories: MZSP (holotype); AMNH, BMNH, CPDC, LACM, MCZC, MNHN, MZSP (paratypes).
    • Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
    • combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
    • Status as species: Feitosa, 2015c: 97.
    • Distribution: Brazil.

Description

Lacau and Delabie 2002, page 34.
Lacau and Delabie 2002, page 34.
Lacau and Delabie 2002, page 36.

Karyotype

  • n = 9, 2n = 18, karyotype = 12M + 6A (Brazil) (Mariano et al., 2015).

References