Tetraponera rakotonis

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Tetraponera rakotonis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae
Genus: Tetraponera
Species group: allaborans
Species: T. rakotonis
Binomial name
Tetraponera rakotonis
(Forel, 1891)

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Specimen Label

Identification

A member of the Tetraponera allaborans species-group.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -20.06666667° to -20.06666667°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Malagasy Region: Madagascar (type locality).

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

Tetraponera rakotonis casent0101789 head 1.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101789 profile 1.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101789 dorsal 1.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101789 label 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code casent0101789. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0101913. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0102037. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.
Tetraponera rakotonis casent0101713 head 1.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101713 head 2.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101713 profile 1.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101713 dorsal 1.jpgTetraponera rakotonis casent0101713 label 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code casent0101713. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

  • rakotonis. Sima rakotonis Forel, 1891b: 206, pl. 5, fig. 7 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Combination in S. (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921f: 28; in Tetraponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1015.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Fisher B. L. 1997. Biogeography and ecology of the ant fauna of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 31: 269-302.
  • Fisher B. L. 2003. Formicidae, ants. Pp. 811-819 in: Goodman, S. M.; Benstead, J. P. (eds.) 2003. The natural history of Madagascar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xxi + 1709 pp.
  • Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 1005-1055