Calyptomyrmex brevis

Calyptomyrmex brevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Calyptomyrmex
Species:	C. brevis
Binomial name
	Calyptomyrmex brevis; Weber, 1943 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Afrotropical Calyptomyrmex workers

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 6.312222222° to -2.226388889°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Sudan (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.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

brevis. Calyptomyrmex (Calyptomyrmex) brevis Weber, 1943c: 366, pl. 15, fig. 1 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”).
- Type-locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): W slopes Imatong Mts, Lotti Forest, 5.viii.1939, no. 1441 (N.A. Weber).
- Type-depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
- Status as species: Weber, 1952a: 23; Bolton, 1981a: 63 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 83.
- Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, South Sudan.

Description

References

Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 42: 43-81 (page 63, see also)
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 83, catalogue)
Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389 (page 366, fig. 1 worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Davis L. R., and L. E. Alonso. 2007. Ant species collected from the Atewa Range Forest Reserve during the 2006 RAP survey. Pp 171-172. McCullough, J., L.E. Alonso, P. Naskrecki, H.E. Wright and Y. Osei-Owusu (eds.). 2007. A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Ghana. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 47. Conservation International, Arlington, VA.
Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.