Lioponera ficosa

Lioponera ficosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Lioponera
Species:	L. ficosa
Binomial name
Lioponera ficosa (Wheeler, W.M., 1918) Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -32.5° to -37.232674°.

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

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0249294. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.

Nomenclature

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

• ficosa. Phyracaces ficosus Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 252, fig. 12 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
  • Type-material: 12 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bulli Pass, 4.xii.1914 (W.M. Wheeler).
  • Type-depository: MCZC.
  • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1973d: 205 (l.).
  • Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22;
  • combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
  • Status as species: Brown, 1975: 22, 66; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 25; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 143.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

• Phyracaces ficosus: Syntype, 3 workers, Bulli Pass, New South Wales, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
• Phyracaces ficosus: Syntype, 3 workers, Bulli Pass, New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Phyracaces ficosus: Syntype, 2 workers, Bulli Pass, New South Wales, Australia, South Australian Museum.

Original notes (Wheeler, 1918): Described from a dozen specimens taken Dec. 4, 1914 in the Bulli Pass, New South Wales. They were running over the sand in a loose file, carrying the nude pupae of a Myrmicine ant whose nest they had just plundered.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 143, catalogue)
• Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1 1: 1-115 (page 22, Combination in Cerapachys)
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1973d. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Cerapachyinae, Pseudomyrmecinae and Myrmicinae. Psyche (Camb.) 80: 204-211 (page 205, larva described)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918a. The Australian ants of the ponerine tribe Cerapachyini. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 53: 215-265 (page 252, worker described)