Liometopum orientale

Liometopum orientale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Liometopum
Species:	L. orientale
Binomial name
Liometopum orientale Karavaiev, 1927 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Russian Federation (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.

Nomenclature

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

• orientale. Liometopum microcephalum var. orientalis Karavaiev, 1927d: 339 (w.) RUSSIA. Kupyanskaya, 1988: 31 (q.m.). Raised to species: Kupyanskaya, 1988: 29. See also: Kupyanskaya, 1990: 157; Del Toro, et al. 2009: 337.

The following notes on V.A. Karavaiev type specimens have been provided by Martynov & Radchenko (2016) based on material held in the Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian Academy of Science:

Type locality(-ies): “Sutschan-Bergmine, Ussurigebiet, 20.VII.1926 (Nr. 3082), Kotschubej, zahlreiche ww”.

Original Karawajew label(-s): “Liometopum / microcephalum Panz. / Сучанский рудн. Уссур. об. / Кочубей / Караваев det. 3082 [Suchansky mine, Ussuri Prov. / Kochubei leg. / Karawajew det.”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 5 w (newly mounted, IN 314/6/2), 266 w (in alcohol, IN 314/BAMS1/Karaw69, 70).

References

• Dubovikoff, D.A., Yusupov, Z.M. 2017. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
• Karavaiev, V. 1927d. The ant fauna of Ukraine. Zb. Prats Zool. Muz. 2:1-52 [= Tr. Ukr. Akad. Nauk Fiz.-Mat. Vidd. 4:247-296] (page 339, worker described)
• Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1988. A Far Eastern representative of the genus Liometopum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vestn. Zool. 1: 29-34 (page 29, raised to species)
• Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1988. A Far Eastern representative of the genus Liometopum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vestn. Zool. 1: 29-34 (page 31, queen, male described)
• Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp. (page 157, see also)
• Martynov, A.V., Radchenko, A.G. 2016. Karawajew's ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Zootaxa 4097 (2): 244–254.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Martynov A. V., and A. G. Radchenko. 2016. Karawajew’s ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Zootaxa 4097 (2): 244–254.
• Radchenko, A. 2005. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici 55(2): 127-221.