Dolichoderus burmanicus

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Dolichoderus burmanicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Dolichoderini
Genus: Dolichoderus
Species: D. burmanicus
Binomial name
Dolichoderus burmanicus
Bingham, 1903

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Specimen Labels

Polydomous; polygynous; nest pavilions built of carton material underneath leaves of Musa or Zingiberaceae, containing brood and coccids; coccids carried into nest pavilions, and carried away after destruction of pavilions; no trophobiotic partners outside pavilions. (Rohe 1991)

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Myanmar (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

Nomenclature

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

  • burmanicus. Dolichoderus burmanicus Bingham, 1903: 293, fig. 88 (w.) MYANMAR. Combination in D. (Hypoclinea): Emery, 1913a: 13.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Type Material

Dill (2002) - Workers, Upper Burma, above 4,000 ft.: Southern Shan States, Tuanggyi, (Bingham) (BMNH); Ruby Mines District (Bingham). Syntypes.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • 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
  • Dill M. 2002. Taxonomy of the migrating herdsmen species of the genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831, with remarks on the systematics of other southeast-Asian Dolichoderus. Pp. 17-113 in: Dill, M.; Williams, D. J.; Maschwitz, U. 2002. Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 557: 1-373.
  • Emery C. 1913. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137: 1-50.