Dolichoderus imitator
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| Dolichoderus imitator | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Dolichoderini |
| Genus: | Dolichoderus |
| Species: | D. imitator |
| Binomial name | |
| Dolichoderus imitator Emery, 1894
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Contents
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil (type locality), Ecuador.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
Worker
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- imitator. Dolichoderus (Dolichoderus) imitator Emery, 1894c: 230, pl. 1, fig. 12 (w.q.m.) BRAZIL. See also: Mackay, 1993b: 61.
Description
Karyotype
- 2n = 38, karyotype = 6M+28SM+4A (Brazil) (Santos et al., 2016).
References
- Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137-241 (page 230, pl. 1, fig. 12 worker, queen, male described)
- MacKay, W. P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 22: 1-148 (page 61, see also)
- Santos, I.S., Mariano, C.S.F., Delabie, J.H.C., Costa, M.A., Carvalho, A.F., Silva, J.G. 2016. "Much more than a neck": karyotype differentiation between Dolichoderus attelaboides (FABRICIUS, 1775) and Dolichoderus decollatus F. SMITH, 1858 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and karyotypic diversity of five other Neotropical species of Dolichoderus LUND, 1831. Myrmecological News 23: 61-69.
