Dacetinops cirrosus

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Dacetinops cirrosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Dacetinops
Species: D. cirrosus
Binomial name
Dacetinops cirrosus
Taylor, 1985

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 5.016666667° to 4.95°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

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Images from AntWeb

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Paratype of Dacetinops cirrosusWorker. Specimen code casent0172451. 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.

  • cirrosus. Dacetinops cirrosus Taylor, 1985: 56, figs. 1, 16-18 (w.q.m.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak, Sabah), WEST MALAYSIA.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, >12 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen.
    • Type-locality: holotype Malaysia: Sarawak, 1st Division, Semengo Forest Reserve, ca 19 km. SW Kuching (1°33’N, 110°20’E; ca 2 km. S of 10th mile Bazaar, on Kuching-Penrissen Road), 28.v., RWT acc. 68.121 (R.W. Taylor); paratypes: 4 workers, 1 queen with same data, 1 worker Sarawak, 4th Division, Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, 14.iii.1978, leaf litter (H. Vallack), 4 workers Sarawak, 4th Division, Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, v-vii. 1978 (J.E. Marshall); workers (colony) Sabah, Lungmanis, mile 45 (Labuk Rd, ex Sandakan), 12.vi.1968, acc. 68.462, small rotting log (R.W. Taylor); 1 worker Sabah, Lungmanis, mile 45, (Labuk Rd), acc. 68.459, under bark on log (R.W. Taylor); workers (colony) Sabah, Lungmanis, mile 43 (Labuk Rd), 13.vi.1968, acc. 68.503, small piece of rotting wood) (R.W. Taylor), workers (colony) Sabah, Sepilok Forest Reserve, nr Sandakan, 11.vi.1968, acc. 68.425, small rotting log (R.W. Taylor), 2 workers Sabah, Sepilok Forest Reserve, 12.vi.1968, acc. 68.451, berlesate (R.W. Taylor), workers (two colonies) Sabah, Quoin Hill Research Station,nr Tawau, 17.vi.1968, acc. 68.532, and 19.vi.1968, acc. 68.599, small rotting log (R.W. Taylor), 2 workers Sabah, Quoin Hill Research Station, 19.vi.1968, accs 68.619, and 68.621, berlesates (R.W. Taylor).
    • Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, HNHM, KUPC, MCZC, MHNG, SMNH (paratypes).
    • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 168; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 46.
    • Distribution: Malaysia (Peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak).

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Fayle T. M., E. C. Turner, J. L. Snaddon, V. Khen Chey, A. Y. C. Chung, P. Eggleton, and W. A. Foster. 2010. Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter. Basic and Applied Ecology 11: 337–345.
  • General D. M., and G. D. Alpert. 2012. A synoptic review of the ant genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Philippines. Zookeys 200: 1-111.
  • Pfeiffer M., and D. Mezger. 2012. Biodiversity Assessment in Incomplete Inventories: Leaf Litter Ant Communities in Several Types of Bornean Rain Forest. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40729. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040747
  • Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
  • Taylor, R. W. 1985. The ants of the Papuasian genus Dacetinops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pp. 41-67 in: Ball, G. E. (ed.) 1985. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of beetles and ants: a volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., 1904-1983. Series Entomologica (Dordrecht) 33:1-514.