Aphaenogaster loriai

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Aphaenogaster loriai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Aphaenogaster
Species: A. loriai
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster loriai
(Emery, 1897)

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Specimen Labels

Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -3.089444444° to -8.366669655°.

 
North
Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (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

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Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code casent0900358. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.
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Syntype of Aphaenogaster loriaiWorker. Specimen code casent0904189. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

  • loriai. Stenamma (Ischnomyrmex) loriai Emery, 1897d: 563, pl. 1, figs. 9, 10 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen.
    • Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Moroka, 1300 m. (L. Loria).
    • Type-depository: MSNG.
    • [Misspelled as loriae by Emery, 1915d: 71, and others.]
    • Viehmeyer, 1914c: 516 (m.).
    • Combination in Ischnomyrmex: Stitz, 1911a: 367;
    • combination in Aphaenogaster (Planimyrma): Viehmeyer, 1914d: 604; Emery, 1921f: 66;
    • combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma): Emery, 1915d: 71.
    • Status as species: Stitz, 1911a: 367; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 516; Viehmeyer, 1914d: 605; Emery, 1915d: 71; Emery, 1921f: 66; Donisthorpe, 1947c: 581; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 134; Smith, M.R. 1961b: 223 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 70.
    • Senior synonym of atra: Smith, M.R. 1961b: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 70.
    • Distribution: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.
  • atra. Aphaenogaster (Planimyrma) loriai var. atra Stitz, 1938: 101 (w.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“German New Guinea”): (no further data), (Kaiserin-Augustafluss-Expd.) (Bürgers).
    • Type-depository: MNHU.
    • Subspecies of loriai: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 134.
    • Junior synonym of loriai: Smith, M.R. 1961b: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 68.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • CSIRO Collection
  • Donisthorpe H. 1947. Ants from New Guinea, including new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)13: 577-595.
  • Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
  • Smith M. R. 1961. A study of New Guinea ants of the genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Hymenopterologica 1: 213-238.
  • Snelling R. R. 2000. Ants of the Wapoga river area, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. In Mack, Andrew L. and Leeanne E. Alonso (eds.). 2000. A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 14, Conservation International, Washington, DC.
  • Stitz H. 1911. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911: 351-381.
  • Stitz H. 1938. Neue Ameisen aus dem indo-malayischen Gebiet. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berl. 1938: 99-122.
  • Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.
  • Viehmeyer H. 1914. Mayr's Gattung Ischnomyrmex (Hym.) nebst Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten aus anderen Gattungen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 37: 601-612.
  • Viehmeyer H. 1914. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914: 515-535.