Echinopla serrata

Echinopla serrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Echinopla
Species group:	serrata
Species:	E. serrata
Binomial name
Echinopla serrata (Smith, F., 1859) Specimen Labels

Identification

A member of the Echinopla serrata group.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Echinopla species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (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.

• serrata. Polyrhachis serratus Smith, F. 1859a: 140 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru I.). Combination in Polyrhachis (Aulacomyrma): Emery, 1925b: 198; in Echinopla: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 453.

The following notes on F. Smith type specimens have been provided by Barry Bolton (details):

Polyrhachis serratus

Holotype worker in The Natural History Museum. Labelled “Aru.” and marked as holotype. This specimen matches the original description and has the correct type-locality.

The specimen in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, labelled “Aru 50” and with a Donisthorpe type-label, is not a type, and not a specimen of serratus. It entirely fails to match the original description, but compares well with a syntype of australis Forel that is in The Natural History Museum coll. Accordingly the Oxford University Museum of Natural History specimen has been labelled, “australis Forel. Bolton det. 73,” and “not a type, not serrata.”

References

• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(10): 441-476 (page 453, Combination in Echinopla)
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 198, Combination in Polyrhachis (Aulacomyrma))
• Smith, F. 1859a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. [part]. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 3: 132-158 (page 140, worker described)
• Zettel, H. & Laciny, A. 2017. Further additions to the taxonomy and distribution of the ant genus Echinopla. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, B, 119: 7-16.
• Xu, Z.-H. & Zhou, X. 2015. Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species. Asian Myrmecology, 7, 19-36.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Donisthorpe, Horace. 1943. The Ants of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 (10): 433-475.
• Emery C. 1886. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 5: 363-382
• Smith F. 1863. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou, Bouru and Timor. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 7: 6-48.
• Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.