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Vombisidris harpeza
| Vombisidris harpeza | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Vombisidris |
| Species: | V. harpeza |
| Binomial name | |
| Vombisidris harpeza Bolton, 1991
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The single (type) worker was hand-collected, walking on the bark of a large forest tree. Heterick & Kitching (2022) collected this species in the canopy of a lowland dipterocarp forest in Brunei.
Identification
A member of the australis group
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia.
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.
- harpeza. Vombisidris harpeza Bolton, 1991: 7, fig. 5 (w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Malaysia: Sarawak, 4th Div., G. Mulu N.P., RGS Expd., Long Pala, 20.ix.1977, on tree trunk, lowland rainforest (B. Bolton).
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 423; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 55; Xu & Yu, 2012: 1499 (in key).
- Distribution: Malaysia (Sarawak).
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
Holotype. TL 3.5, HL 0.80, HW 0.75, CI 94, SL 0.52, SI 69, PW 0.56, AL 1.00. Maximum diameter of eye 0.20 (0.27 x HW) and with 9 ommatidia in the longest row. Cephalic dorsum finely reticulate-rugulose everywhere. Subocular groove complete. Sides of head behind eyes approximately parallel. Alitrunk reticulate-rugulose, sides of mesonotum broadly angular in dorsal view. Metanotal groove almost obliterated, visible in dorsal view as a shallow but quite broad impression, only vestigially impressed in profile. Petiole and postpetiole reticulate-rugulose. Petiole spiracle close to articulation with alitrunk. Very short basigastral costulae present. First gastral tergite with vestigial traces of faint superficial reticular patterning. Hairs on all dorsal surfaces short stout and truncated apically. Colour uniformly yellow.
Type Material
Holotype worker, East Malaysia: Sarawak, 4th Division, G. Mulu NP, RGS Expd., Long Pala, 20.ix.1977, lowland rainforest on tree trunk (B. Bolton) (The Natural History Museum).
References
- Bolton, B. 1991. New myrmicine genera from the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Syst. Entomol. 16: 1-13. (page 7, fig. 5 worker described)
- Jeenthong, T., Jaitrong, W., Tasen, W. 2023. A new species of the ant genus Vombisidris Bolton, 1991 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Thailand. Tropical Natural History 23: 105-113.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bolton B. 1991. New myrmicine genera from the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 16:1-13.
- Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58