Tetramorium scabrum

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Tetramorium scabrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species group: bicarinatum
Species: T. scabrum
Binomial name
Tetramorium scabrum
Mayr, 1879

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Specimen Labels

Heterick & Kitching (2022) collected this species in a pitfall trap within a lowland dipterocarp forest in Brunei.

Identification

A member of the T. bicarinatum species group.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 24.31666667° to 2.342182°.

   
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.
Oriental Region: India.
Palaearctic Region: China.

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

Nomenclature

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

  • scabrum. Tetramorium scabrum Mayr, 1879: 672 (w.) BORNEO. Forel, 1913k: 81 (q.m.). Subspecies of pacificum: Emery, 1924d: 284. Junior synonym of pacificum: Bolton, 1977: 102. Revived from synonymy: Schlick-Steiner, Steiner & Zettel, 2006: 183.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics