Dolichoderus thoracicus lacciperdus

Dolichoderus thoracicus lacciperdus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	D. thoracicus
Subspecies:	D. thoracicus lacciperdus
Trinomial name
Dolichoderus thoracicus lacciperdus Santschi, 1925

Santschi (1925) - Carrying scale insects (“cochenilles a laque” = ? Karia sp., Kerriidae) and “disseminate” them on the tree Sankei.

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Cambodia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• lacciperdus. Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea) bituberculatus var. lacciperda Santschi, 1925f: 91 (w.) CAMBODIA. Currently subspecies of thoracicus: Shattuck, 1994: 70.

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

Type Material

Dill (2002) - Workers, Cambodia, Prov. Taki, Phum Kanteng (Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel). Syntypes.

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).
• Santschi, F. 1925f. Contribution à la faune myrmécologique de la Chine. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 81-96 (page 91, worker described)
• 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)