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Calyptomyrmex tensus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Calyptomyrmex |
| Species: | C. tensus |
| Binomial name | |
| Calyptomyrmex tensus Bolton, 1981
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 6.337777778° to -0.317°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya, Uganda (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.
- tensus. Calyptomyrmex tensus Bolton, 1981a: 74, figs. 31, 40 (w.) UGANDA.
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Uganda: Ruwenzori, nr Mubuku River, ca 1 mi. SE Ibanda, (Ruwenzori Expd.), 30.vii.1952, no. 128, soil and litter under elephant grass (G.O. Evans).
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 83; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 208.
- Distribution: Kenya, Uganda.
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 74, figs. 31, 40 worker described)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 83, catalogue)
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.