Cryptopone gilvatumida

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Cryptopone gilvatumida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Cryptopone
Species complex: gilva
Species: C. gilvatumida
Binomial name
Cryptopone gilvatumida
Branstetter & Longino, 2022

This species occurs in cloud forest habitats from 1400-2040 m elevation. Most specimens are from Winkler samples of sifted leaf litter and rotten wood. Three nests were found in and under rotting wood in a small cloud forest clearing near Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. The larvae have five pairs of dorsal doorknob-shaped tubercles, as described for Cryptopone gilva (Wheeler and Wheeler 1952). (Branstetter & Longino, 2022)

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Mexico (type locality).

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Biology

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Phylogeny

C. gilva complex

Cryptopone gilvagrande

Cryptopone gilva

Cryptopone gilvatumida

Cryptopone guatemalensis

Based on Branstetter & Longino (2022).

Nomenclature

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

  • gilvatumida. Cryptopone gilvatumida Branstatter & Longino, 2022: 16, figs. 8, 9, 11 (w.q.) MEXICO.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 8 paratype workers.
    • Type-locality: holotype Mexico: Veracruz, 12 km. WSW Xalapa, 19.52307, -97.02789±20 m., 1940 m., 12.vii.2016, #9738, cloud forest, dead wood (J. Longino); paratypes: 2 workers with same data, 3 workers with same data but #9739.2, 3 workers with same data but #9740.
    • Type-depositories: UNAM (holotype); CASC, IEXA, JTLC, MCZC, UCDC, USNM (paratypes).
    • Distribution: Mexico.

Type Material

  • Holotype worker: Mexico, Veracruz, 12km WSW Xalapa, 19.52307 -97.02789 ± 20 m, 1940 m, 12 July 2016, cloud forest clearing, nest in dead wood (J. Longino #9738) [UNAM, unique specimen identifier CASENT0631951].
  • Paratypes: same data as holotype [1 worker, CAS, CASENT0644254; 1 worker, USNM, CASENT0644255]; same data except J. Longino #9739.2 [1 worker, MCZC, CASENT0644259; 1 worker, UCDC, CASENT0644260; 1 worker, IEXA, CASENT0644261; 1 worker, JTLC, CASENT0644262]; same data except J.Longino #9740 [3 workers, CAS, CASENT0644256, CASENT0644257, CASENT0644258].

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