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Lioponera desertorum
| Lioponera desertorum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Lioponera |
| Species: | L. desertorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Lioponera desertorum (Dlussky, 1990) | |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Turkmenistan (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.
- desertorum. Cerapachys desertorum Dlussky, in Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 177, fig. 43 (w.m.) UZBEKISTAN.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype male.
- [Note: Dlussky comments that the holotype may be an ergatoid queen.]
- Type-locality: holotype Uzbekistan: Dekhanabad, 12.v.1978, #78-76 (G. Dlussky); paratype: Uzbekistan: Shirintepe, Karshi, 4.viii.1977 (D. Sherbakov).
- Type-depository: ZMUM.
- Combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 142.
- Distribution: Uzbekistan.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 142, catalogue)
- Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).
- Dlussky, G.M., Soyunov, O.S., Zabelin, S.I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. (page 177, fig. 43 worker, male described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Borowiec M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280.
- Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.