Amblyopone gingivalis

Amblyopone gingivalis
Amblyopone gingivalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Amblyopone
Species:	A. gingivalis
Binomial name
Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960 Specimen labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -28.39999962° to -33.41667175°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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.

Castes

Worker

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Specimen code casent0172201. .

Nomenclature

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

• gingivalis. Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960a: 205, figs. 30, 31 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Calga, iv.1956 (C. Mercovich).
  • [Note: Brown, 1960a: 205, records that the holotype was badly damaged in transit and now lacks its head and anterior prothorax.]
  • Type-depository: ANIC.
  • Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Amblyopone: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2014: 14 (in text).
  • Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

• Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960: Holotype, worker, Calga, New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 62, catalogue)
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230 (page 205, figs. 30, 31 worker described)
• Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7(3):e33325 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325).
• Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. A revision of the ant genus Mystrium in the Malagasy region with description of six new species and remarks on Amblyopone and Stigmatomma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae). ZooKeys 394, 1–99.