Ectomomyrmex sauteri

Ectomomyrmex sauteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Ectomomyrmex
Species:	E. sauteri
Binomial name
Ectomomyrmex sauteri (Forel, 1912) Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 35.312884° to 22.88333333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Taiwan (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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Pachycondyla sauteri. Worker. Specimen code casent0907274. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

• sauteri. Pachycondyla (Ectomomyrmex) sauteri Forel, 1912a: 49 (w.q.) TAIWAN. [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera) sauteri Wheeler, W.M. 1906c: 304, above .] (Bolton, 1995b: 309).] Combination in Ectomomyrmex: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 193.

References

• Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).

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