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Heteroponera darlingtonorum
| Heteroponera darlingtonorum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Heteroponerini |
| Genus: | Heteroponera |
| Species group: | relicta |
| Species complex: | relicta |
| Species: | H. darlingtonorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteroponera darlingtonorum Taylor, 2015 | |
Specimens have been collected from rainforest, from both litter and soil.
Identification
Similar to Heteroponera relicta but with distinctively different sculpturation (compare Figs, notably the sculpture of the gastral dorsa). First and second gastral tergites moderately shining, but densely, finely point-punctate, with overlain, scattered, small, very weakly expressed foveate punctae on the first tergite. Bodily proportions and general structure, sculpturing of scrobes, propodeal declivity and node posteriorly as in H. relicta; Humeral epaulets similarly developed; propodeal dorsum in profile less strongly sloped posterodorsally; the declivity less strongly laterally margined and more narrowly triangular (apex dorsal).
Identification Keys including this Taxon
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -18.22° to -19.1°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (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. |
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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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- darlingtonorum. Heteroponera darlingtonorum Taylor, 2015b: 163, figs. 14-17 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland mainland, and Hinchinbrook I.).
- Type-material: holotype worker, 2 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Australia: Queensland, ca 5 km. W Paluma (19°00’S, 146°12’E), 950 m., 12.viii.1971 (R.W. Taylor & J.D. Feehan); paratypes: 1 worker Queensland, 12 km. W Paluma, 3000 ft, 3.xi.1980, in soil beside log (B.B. Lowery), 1 worker Queensland, Bluewater Range, 600 m., 7.xii.1986, rainforest, sieved litter (G.B. Monteith & G.I. Thompson).
- Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, QMBA (paratypes).
- Distribution: Australia.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
Taylor (2015) - (Holotype, Paluma paratype, Bluewater Range paratype): TL (ca): 4.5, 4.2, 4.3; HW: 1.14, 1.07, 1.09; HL: 1.09, 1.02, 1.04; CI:108, 106, 104; EL: 0.21, 0.20, 0.18; SL: 0.68, 0.63, 0.67; SI: 59, 58, 61; PW: 0.85, 0.77, 0.84; WL: 1.36, 1.28, 1.27; petH: 0.75, 0.69, 0.73; petW: 0.45, 0.44, 0.44; GW 0.92, 0.89, 0.89.
Type Material
AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND: 5 km W of Paluma (19°00'S, 146°12'E). Holotype, Australian National Insect Collection. Paratype, Queensland Museum.
Etymology
Named for Philip J. Darlington Jr, his wife Elizabeth Koch Darlington and their son Philip Jr. In 1956–57 they pioneered modern concentrated large-scale insect taxonomic survey in Australia by spending eighteen months living in a field-truck collecting carabid beetles and other insects, including ants, for the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (Darlington, 1960).
References
- Taylor, R.W. 2015. Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (2) the species-group of Heteroponera relicta (Wheeler) with descriptions of nine new species and observations on morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa 3947, 151-180. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.1