.jpg){kind=logo}
Emeryopone loebli
| Emeryopone loebli | |
|---|---|
| |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Emeryopone |
| Species: | E. loebli |
| Binomial name | |
| Emeryopone loebli (Baroni Urbani, 1975)
| |
Emeryopone loebli was described from Israel (Galilea) based on four workers collected in an arid area overgrown with Eucalyptus tree and Opuntia sp. (Baroni Urbani 1975). Subsequently, it was recorded from Saudi Arabia (Al Qatif), based on one worker collected in soil litter under a date palm (Collingwood 1985). An Iranian record is only the third known for this species. In Iran, this species was collected in oak rotting wood under an Oak tree from the western slope of the Zagros Mountain (Cheri peak), overgrown mostly with thermophilous oak forest (Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2023).
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 26.933333° to 26.933333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia.
Palaearctic Region: Israel (type locality), Türkiye.
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. |
|
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. |
|
Biology
Castes
Images from AntWeb
   
| |
| Paratype of Belonopelta loebli. Worker. Specimen code casent0915184. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
,_Fig._3.jpg)
,_Fig._1-2.jpg)
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- loebli. Belonopelta loebli Baroni Urbani, 1975b: 307, figs. 4, 7 (w.) ISRAEL. Combination in Emeryopone: Bolton, 1995b: 188.
Description
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1975b. Contributo alla conoscenza dei generi Belonopelta Mayr e Leiopelta gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 48: 295-310 (page 307, figs. 4, 7 worker described)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 188, Combination in Emeryopone)
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Khalili-Moghadam, A., Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2023. Emeryopone loebli (Baroni Urbani, 1975) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – an ant species new to the fauna of Iran. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 32 (online 006), 1-4 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.10053142).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Baroni Urbani C. 1975. Contributo alla conoscenza dei generi Belonopelta Mayr e Leiopelta gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 48: 295-310.
- Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.