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Calyptomyrmex ocullatus
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| Calyptomyrmex ocullatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Calyptomyrmex |
| Species: | C. ocullatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Calyptomyrmex ocullatus Shattuck, 2011
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This rare species has been collected only once, from a rainforest in Far North Queensland. No further details are available.
Identification
Shattuck (2011) - Hairs on head and body thin (essentially the same width along entire length, or only slightly and gradually expanded distally, and with blunt tips), propodeum armed with short spines, mesonotum rugo-reticulate but lacking longitudinal rugae, petiolar node narrow and thick in dorsal view. This species is similar to Calyptomyrmex grammus but differs in lacking longitudinal rugae on the mesonotum (these are present in grammus) and in having a narrower and thicker petiolar node.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.91667° to -16.91667°.
| 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. |
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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.
- ocullatus. Calyptomyrmex ocullatus Shattuck, 2011a: 16, fig. 11 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: holotype worker, 6 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Australia: Queensland, Crystal Cascades, nr Cairnes, vi-xii. 1956 (P.J. & P.F. Darlington); paratypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, MCZC (paratypes).
- Distribution: Australia.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
(holotype) - CFW 0.11; CI 95; HL 0.78; HW 0.74; ML 0.76; MTL 0.36; PetI 142; PetL 0.20; PetW 0.28; PronW 0.50; SI 63; SL 0.47.
Mandibles striate basally, essentially smooth apically. Eyes small, with 2–3 ommatidia in greatest diameter. Propodeum in lateral view armed with short spines. Propodeal lobes slightly thickened posteriorly. Node of petiole in profile higher and larger than that of postpetiole. In dorsal view the petiolar node approximately the same width as the postpetiolar node. Head indistinctly rugose, the rugae tending to be longitudinal anteriorly and forming a weak network posteriorly, with the entire surface finely but distinctly punctate, the punctations partially obscuring individual rugae. Mesosoma and petiolar and postpetiolar nodes rugose superimposed over an indistinctly punctate background, the individual rugae wavy and sometimes forming a network, otherwise more or less linear. Gaster finely and indistinctly sculptured, stronger anteriorly and fading slightly posteriorly. Hairs on head and body erect, uniform in diameter and with sharply pointed tips. Clypeal fork with slightly enlarged and thin hairs, all hairs approximately the same length. Colour yellow-red, antennae, legs and base of gaster slightly lighter.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, Crystal Cascades near Cairns, Queensland, Australia, June–December 1956, Darlingtons, ANIC32-047436, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Paratype workers, same data as holotype (1 in Australian National Insect Collection, 4 in Museum of Comparative Zoology).