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Chronoxenus wroughtonii formosensis
| Chronoxenus wroughtonii formosensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Chronoxenus |
| Species: | C. wroughtonii |
| Subspecies: | C. wroughtonii formosensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Chronoxenus wroughtonii formosensis (Forel, 1913)
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Taiwan (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: China.
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.
- formosensis. Bothriomyrmex wroughtoni r. formosensis Forel, 1913f: 197 (w.) TAIWAN.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- [Notes (i): Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 79, cites 3w syntypes NHMB; (ii) Shattuck, 1994: 38, cites 45w syntypes (1 BMNH, 41 MHNG, 3 NHMB).]
- Type-locality: Taiwan (“Formosa”): Taihorin (H. Sauter).
- Type-depositories: BMNH, DEIB, MHNG, NHMB.
- [Misspelled as formosae by Santschi, 1919i: 202.]
- Combination in Bothriomyrmex (Chronoxenus): Santschi, 1919i: 202;
- combination in Chronoxenus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 166.
- Subspecies of wroughtonii: Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 62; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 188; Shattuck, 1994: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Lin & Wu, 2003: 60; Terayama, 2009: 200; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 24.
- Distribution: Taiwan.
Description
References
Heterick, B.E. & Shattuck, S.O. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex. Zootaxa 2845: 1-175.