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Dolichoderus moggridgei
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Dolichoderini |
| Genus: | Dolichoderus |
| Species: | D. moggridgei |
| Binomial name | |
| Dolichoderus moggridgei Forel, 1886
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Nothing is known about the biology of Dolichoderus moggridgei.
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (type locality).
Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, China.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
Check data from AntWeb
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
Worker
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Syntype of Dolichoderus moggridgei lugubris. Worker. Specimen code casent0911510. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- moggridgei. Dolichoderus moggridgei Forel, 1886d: 243 (w.) INDIA. Combination in D. (Hypoclinea): Emery, 1894c: 229. Current subspecies: nominal plus bicolor, lugubris.
Description
Worker
Bingham (1903): Brownish red, uniform, the mandibles, antennae and legs a shade lighter. Head and abdomen shining, hut very minutely and closely reticulate-punctate, sparsely pilose and pubescent; thorax more coarsely punctate and pilose, somewhat opaque. Head oval, as broad posteriorly as in front ; the cheeks and front very convex; mandibles triangular, the outer and masticatory margins longer proportionately than in any other Indian species of the genus; clypeus and antennae as in D. feae, only the scape is proportionately longer and extends further beyond the top of the head. Thorax short and broad ; the pronotum flat, margined anteriorly; the mesonotum much raised and not very distinctly longitudinally sulcate ; the meso-metanotal emargination very deeply marked, the truncate apical portion of the metanotum long and flat, almost vertical ; legs moderately long, robust, and sparsely pilose. Node of the pedicel inclined to the front, slightly convex anteriorly, flat posteriorly, its upper margin rounded ; abdomen broadly oval, not very convex above.
Length: 2.3 - 2.5 mm
Note: Bingham has a doubt about whether he has rightly identified this species
References
- Barabag, Z., Jaitrong, W. 2022. A new species of the ant genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Thailand. Sociobiology, 69(1), e6247 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v69i1.6247).
- Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 26: 137-241 (page 229, Combination in D. (Hypoclinea))
- Forel, A. 1886d. Indian ants of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, No. 2. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal Part II Nat. Sci. 55: 239-249 (page 243, worker described)
- Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128