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Cyphoidris exalta
| Cyphoidris exalta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Cyphoidris |
| Species: | C. exalta |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyphoidris exalta Bolton, 1981
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -2.234166667° to -2.234166667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun (type locality), Central African Republic.
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
Worker
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0405993. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- exalta. Cyphoidris exalta Bolton, 1981b: 258, fig. 17 (w.) CAMEROON.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
- Type-locality: holotype Cameroon: Korup Reserve, 14.ii.1980, in rotten log (D.A. Jackson); paratype with same data.
- Type-depositories: BMNH (holotype); MCZC (paratype).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 167; Taylor, 2009: 25.
- Distribution: Cameroon.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
Holotype. TL 4.3, HL 0.96, HW 0.88, CI 92, SL 0.74, SI 84, PW 0.64, AL 1.16.
Answering to the description of Cyphoidris spinosa in general characters but differing markedly in sculpture and pilosity, as follows:
exalta - Sides of pronotum smooth. Promesonotal dorsum weakly and predominantly transversely rugulose, with few meshes. Postpetiole in dorsal view unsculptured. Occipital corners without long fine hairs. Occipital margin and sides of head behind eyes with short, curved, decumbent to appressed hairs. Dorsal margins of frontal carinae without a spaced row of long curved hairs; such hairs also absent elsewhere on head where only very short, curved pilosity is present. Dorsal surfaces of alitrunk, petiole and postpetiole with inconspicuous short, curved decumbent hairs. First gastral tergite with short curved hairs.
spinosa - Sides of pronotum reticulate-rugose. Promesonotal dorsum strongly and conspicuously reticulate-rugose. Postpetiole in dorsal view sculptured. Occipital corners each with a single long fine hair which is prominent and conspicuous. Occipital margin and sides of head behind eyes with projecting curved hairs. Dorsal margins of frontal carinae with a spaced row of long curved hairs, such hairs also present elsewhere on head and projecting freely above the level of the shorter ground-pilosity. Dorsal surfaces of alitrunk, petiole and postpetiole with conspicuous long standing hairs. First gastral tergite with elongate projecting hairs.
Paratype. TL 4.2, HL 0.95, HW 0.85, CI 89, SL 0.74, SI 87, PW 0.62, AL 1.12. As holotype.