Dilobocondyla selebensis

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Dilobocondyla selebensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Dilobocondyla
Species: D. selebensis
Binomial name
Dilobocondyla selebensis
(Emery, 1898)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

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

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

Nomenclature

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

  • selebensis. Atopomyrmex selebensis Emery, 1898b: 234, figs. 4, 5 (q.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi).
    • Type-material: holotype queen.
    • Type-locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Nord Selebes”), Toli Toli (Fruhstorfer).
    • Type-depository: MSNG.
    • [Misspelled as celebensis by Emery, 1901g: 567, Chapman & Capco, 1951: 116.]
    • Combination in Dilobocondyla: Santschi, 1910h: 283.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1901g: 567; Santschi, 1910h: 283; Emery, 1924d: 241; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 249 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Varghese, 2006a: 25; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 46 Bharti & Kumar, 2013a: 42 (in key); Chen, et al. 2019: 137 (in key).
    • Distribution: Indonesia (Sulawesi).
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus simalurana.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Bharti H., and R. Kumar. 2013. Five new species of Dilobocondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a revised key to the known species. Asian Myrmecology 5: 29-44.
  • Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
  • Emery C. 1898. Descrizioni di formiche nuove malesi e australiane. Note sinonimiche. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (n.s.)2: 231-245.
  • 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
  • Wheeler W. M. 1916. Four new and interesting ants from the mountains of Borneo and Luzon. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 6: 9-18.