Stenamma ussuriense

Stenamma ussuriense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Stenamma
Species:	S. ussuriense
Binomial name
	Stenamma ussuriense; Arnol'di, 1975

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Oriental and Palearctic Stenamma

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, 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.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

ussuriense. Stenamma ussuriense Arnol'di, 1975: 1825, figs. 2, 6 (w.q.m.) RUSSIA (Primorskiy Kray).
- Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of DuBois, 1998b: 303), 5 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype queen, 1 paralectotype male.
- Type-locality: lectotype Russia: Primorsky Krai, Kedrovaya Pad Reserve, viii.-ix.1964 (G.M. Dlussky), paralectotypes with same data.
- Type-depository: ZMUM.
- Status as species: Kupyanskaya, 1990: 117; Bolton, 1995b: 394; DuBois, 1998b: 299 (redescription); Lyu & Cho, 2004: 266; Radchenko, 2005b: 147; Liu, X. & Xu, 2011: 737 (in key); Bharti, Gul & Sharma, 2012a: 326 (in key).
- Distribution: Russia.

Description

References

Arnol'di, K. V. 1975. A review of the species of the genus Stenamma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR and description of new species. Zool. Zh. 5 54: 1819-1829. (page 1825, figs. 2, 6 worker, queen, male described)
Bharti, H.; Gul, I.; Sharma, Y. P. 2012. Two new species of Stenamma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Indian Himalaya with a revised key to the Palaearctic and Oriental species. Sociobiology. 59:317-330.
DuBois, M. B. 1998a. A revision of the ant genus Stenamma in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 29: 193-403 (page 299, see also, Lectotype designated)
Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp. (page 117, see also)
Lyu, D.-P.; Cho, S. 2004. Review of the genus Stenamma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 7(3): 263-267.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
Kholin S. K. and A. N. Kupianskaya. 2003. The international biodiversity observation year (IBOY): the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of forest ecosystems of the Primorye region. Chteniya Pamyati Alekseya Ivanovicha Kurentsova 14: 50-55.
Kholin S. K., and A. N. Kupianskaya. 2006. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula. A.I. Kurentsov's Annual Memorial Meetings 17: 114-119.
Lyu D.-P.; Cho S. 2004. Review of the genus Stenamma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 7: 263-267.
Lyu D.P., S. Cho. 2004. Review of the genus Stenamma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 7: 263-267.
Lyu D.P.; DuBois M.B.; Cho S. 2002. Stenamma koreanensis, sp. n. from the Korean Peninsula (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 40: 511-523.
Radchenko, A. 2005. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici 55(2): 127-221.