Dolichoderus thoracicus emarginatus

Dolichoderus thoracicus emarginatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	D. thoracicus
Subspecies:	D. thoracicus emarginatus
Trinomial name
Dolichoderus thoracicus emarginatus Santschi, 1920

Nothing is known about the biology of Dolichoderus thoracicus emarginatus.

Distribution

Sumatra.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Laos (type locality), Vietnam (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Nomenclature

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

• emarginatus. Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea) bituberculatus var. emarginata Santschi, 1920h: 168 (w.) LAOS, VIETNAM.
  • [Also described as new by Santschi, 1924c: 108.]
  • [Misspelled as marginatus by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 182.]
  • Subspecies of bituberculatus: Wheeler, W.M. 1927h: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 29; Wheeler, W.M. 1930h: 72; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 182.
  • Junior synonym of bituberculatus: Xu, 1995a: 35.
  • Subspecies of thoracicus: Shattuck, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 173; Dill, 2002: 66.

References

• Dill, M. 2002. Taxonomy of the migrating herdsman 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. and U. Maschwitz. 2002. Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main. 557:1-373.
• 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).
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 70, Subspecies of thoracicus)