Cryptopone rotundiceps

Cryptopone rotundiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Cryptopone
Species:	C. rotundiceps
Binomial name
	Cryptopone rotundiceps; (Emery, 1914) Specimen Label
Synonyms
	Ponera mjobergi Forel, 1915;

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.58333015° to -37.88333333°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality), New Caledonia (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.

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.

Elevation Range

Occurrence at collecting sites during elevational surveys of rainforest in the Eungella region, Queensland, Australia (Burwell et al., 2020).
Species	Elevation (m asl)
Species	200	400	600	800	1000	1200
Cryptopone rotundiceps					0-10	70-80
Shading indicates the bands of elevation where species was recorded. Numbers are the percentage of total samples containing this species.

Biology

Castes

Worker

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Worker. Specimen code casent0172110. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.


Worker. Specimen code casent0172100. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.


Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172101. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Queen

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172101. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.


Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172111. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Nomenclature

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

rotundiceps. Euponera (Trachymesopus) rotundiceps Emery, 1914f: 397, pl. 13, fig. 1 (q.) NEW CALEDONIA.
- Type-material: holotype queen.
- Type-locality: New Caledonia: Mt Canala, 700 m. (F. Sarasin & J. Roux).
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971b: 1208 (l.); Imai, Crozier & Taylor, 1977: 348 (k.).
- Combination in Trachymesopus: Wilson, 1958d: 354;
- combination in Cryptopone: Brown, 1963: 6.
- Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 11; Wilson, 1958d: 354; Brown, 1963: 6; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 28; Taylor, 1987a: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 166.
- Senior synonym of mjobergi: Brown, 1963: 6; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 28; Taylor, 1987a: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 166.
- Distribution: Australia, New Caledonia.
mjobergi. Ponera mjobergi Forel, 1915b: 22, pl. 1, fig. 2 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Blackal Range, Mt Tambourine (E. Mjöberg).
- Type-depositories: ANIC, MHNG (perhaps also NHRS).
- Junior synonym of rotundiceps: Brown, 1963: 6; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 28; Taylor, 1987a: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 166.

Type Material

Euponera (Trachymesopsus) rotundiceps Emery, 1914: Holotype, queen, Mt. Canda, New Caledonia, The Natural History Museum.
Ponera mjobergi Forel, 1915: Syntype, workers, Blackall (as Blackal) Range and Tamborine Mt. (as Mt. Tambourine), Queensland, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.

Description

Karyotype

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n = 6, 2n = 12, karyotype = 6M + 6A (Australia) (Imai et al., 1977; Mariano et al., 2015).

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

CSIRO Collection
Emery, C. 1914. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437.
Forel A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(16): 1-119
Jennings J. T., L. Krogmann, and C. Burwell. 2013. Review of the hymenopteran fauna of New Caledonia with a checklist of species. Zootaxa 3736(1): 1-53.
King J. R., A. N. Andersen, and A. D. Cutter. 1998. Ants as bioindicators of habitat disturbance: validation of the functional goup model for Australi's humid tropics. Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 1627-1638.
Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wheeler, W. M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 121-153
Wheeler, William Morton. 1927. The Ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62(4): 121-153
Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56
Wilson E. O. 1958. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119: 303-371.