Dilobocondyla carinata

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Dilobocondyla carinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Dilobocondyla
Species: D. carinata
Binomial name
Dilobocondyla carinata
Zettel & Bruckner, 2013

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Nothing is known about the biology of Dilobocondyla carinata.

Identification

Zettel and Bruckner (2013) - Worker: Brown; with yellow mark on gaster tergite 1. Posterior margin of head concave. Frontal carinae strong, reaching posterior corners of head. Sculpture of head and mesosoma coarse; interspaces mostly shiny. Petiole with transverse carina. Postpetiole dorsally regularly striated.

Dilobocondyla carinata can be immediately distinguished from all congeners by the petiole bearing a dorsal transverse ridge. The presence of this ridge results in a low PtI of 167, although the petiole is slender as in other species of the D. chapmani group.

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 13.4° to 13.4°.

 
North
Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Philippines (type locality).

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

Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

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

  • carinata. Dilobocondyla carinata Zettel & Bruckner, 2013: 145, figs. 4, 10, 16 (w.) PHILIPPINES (Mindoro I.).
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
    • Type-locality: holotype Philippines: Oriental Mindoro, Calapan City, Parang, 26-27.v.2008, no. P290 (C. Pangantihon); paratype with same data.
    • Type-depositories: USCC (holotype); HSZC (paratype).
    • Status as species: Chen, et al. 2019: 137 (in key).
    • Distribution: Philippines (Mindoro).

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 4.35; HW 1.09; HL 1.14; CI 96; SL 0.70; SI 64; PnW 0.72; PtL 0.51; PtH 0.31; PtW 0.24; PtI 167; PpL 0.37; PpH 0.38; PpW 0.37. Paratype: TL 4.20; HW 1.06; HL 1.11; CI 95; SL 0.68; SI 64; PnW 0.71; PtL 0.50; PtH 0.30; PtW 0.24; PtI 167; PpL 0.36; PpH 0.37; PpW 0.37.

Colour: Head with mandibles, mesosoma and legs, petiole and postpetiole brown; dorsum of head, sides of mesosoma, and node of petiole slightly infuscated; trochanters and distal tarsomeres pale. Gaster blackish brown, tergite 1 with yellow mark anteriorly. Antenna dark brown except yellow scape.

Structures: Head with almost regular coarse striation, except more or less vermiculated rugae behind eyes. Interspaces shiny, almost smooth, at most with very superficial microsculpture. Posterior margin of head concave; hind corners angular. Frontal carinae and antennal scrobes reaching hind corners. Clypeus with five longitudinal rugae; interspaces weakly micro-reticulated.

Mesosoma almost entirely reticulated; coarse rugae forming large meshes; an imaginary line between pronotal corners transecting nine meshes; meso- and metapleura smooth, as shiny as all interspaces. Petiole dorsally unsculptured, laterally with longitudinal rugae; its outline in lateral view unique, anteriorly and posteriorly slender, at mid-length raised to a dorsal transverse ridge; anterodorsal and posterodorsal outline slightly concave; anteroventral tooth small, triangular. Postpetiole in lateral aspect subtriangular, with narrowly rounded apex; both anterodorsal and posterodorsal surface with regular coarse striation. Gaster tergite 1 at base with very dense fine striation that gradually changes to a fine reticulum where the yellow mark ends.

Type Material

Etymology

The Latin adjective carinatus (= keeled) refers to the characteristic carina on the petiole.

References