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Calyptomyrmex taylori
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Calyptomyrmex |
| Species: | C. taylori |
| Binomial name | |
| Calyptomyrmex taylori Shattuck, 2011
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Calyptomyrmex taylori is known from numerous collections made within a tiny area near Cape Tribulation, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. All collections have been from rainforest leaf litter.
Identification
Shattuck (2011) - Hairs on head and body spatulate (noticeably narrower near the body and expanded distally and with a rounded tip), gaster indistinctly punctate, propodeum unarmed, in dorsal view node of petiole rectangular, body smaller (head width < 0.85mm).
Within Australia, taylori is most similar to Calyptomyrmex beccarii but differs in having narrower spatulate hairs on the head, a more rectangular petiolar node (in dorsal view) and in being smaller (head width < 0.85mm rather than > 0.90mm).
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -16.06666756° to -16.13333°.
| 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.
- taylori. Calyptomyrmex taylori Shattuck, 2011a: 24, figs. 17, 18 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: holotype worker, 4 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Australia: Queensland, 3.0 km. W Cape Tribulation (Site 6), 20.ix.1982, rainforest, sieved litter (G. Monteith, Yates & G. Thompson); paratypes: 1 worker with same data, 2 workers with same data but 19.ix.1982, 1 worker with same data but 2.x.1982.
- 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
(n = 10) - CFW 0.09–0.11; CI 92–97; HL 0.76–0.83; HW 0.72–0.80; ML 0.70–0.81; MTL 0.31–0.38; PetI 174–201; PetL 0.17–0.20; PetW 0.33–0.36; PronW 0.49–0.55; SI 58–64; SL 0.44–0.51.
Mandibles striate. Eyes with 4–5 ommatidia in greatest diameter. Propodeum in lateral view lacking angles or spines. Propodeal lobes thin anteriorly, thickened posteriorly. Node of petiole in profile slightly higher and larger than that of postpetiole. In dorsal view the petiolar node much broader than long and slightly narrower than postpetiolar node. Head weakly rugose, the rugae enclosing foveolate spaces, the underlying surface indistinctly punctate. Promesonotum, sides of mesosoma and dorsum of petiole and postpetiole with ill- defined longitudinal rugae which are slightly stronger laterally than dorsally. The underlying surface of the mesosoma, petiole, postpetiole and gaster indistinctly punctate. Hairs on head and body narrowly spatulate and raised above the surface of the body. Clypeal fork with enlarged, short and thin, elongate hairs. Colour dull red-brown, antennae and legs slightly lighter.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, 3.0km W Cape Tribulation (Site 6), Queensland, Australia, 20 September 1982, Monteith, Yeates & Thompson, ANIC32-051625, Australian National Insect Collection; rainforest, sieved litter.
- Paratype, 1 worker, 3.0km W Cape Tribulation (Site 6), Queensland, Australia, 20 September 1982, Monteith, Yeates & Thompson, ANIC32-053403, Australian National Insect Collection; rainforest, sieved litter.
- Additional paratypes: 2 workers, same data as holotype except 19 September 1982 (ANIC32-051626 (1 in Australian National Insect Collection, 1 in Museum of Comparative Zoology)); 1 worker, same data as holotype except 2 October 1982 (Australian National Insect Collection, ANIC32-051627).
References
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Shattuck S. O. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Calyptomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South-east Asia and Oceania. Zootaxa 2743:1-26.