Fisheropone hartwigi

Fisheropone hartwigi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Fisheropone
Species:	F. hartwigi
Binomial name
Fisheropone hartwigi (Arnold, 1948) Specimen Labels

Branstetter & Longino (2022) transferred this species from Cryptopone to Fisheropone based on molecular evidence and made no attempt to provide morphological evidence or to revise the diagnosis of the genus Fisheropone. The transfer serves mainly to exclude the species from Cryptopone.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -25.66032° to -25.75°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: South Africa (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

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0235879. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by AFRC, Pretoria, South Africa.

Worker. Specimen code casent0900371. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

• hartwigi. Cryptopone hartwigi Arnold, 1948: 213, figs. 2, 2a, 2b (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
  • Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: South Africa: Pretoria, i. (E.K. Hartwig).
  • Type-depository: SAMC.
  • Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor, 1967a: 12;
  • combination in Cryptopone: Bolton, 1995b: 166;
  • combination in Fisheropone: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 20.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 166; Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 20.
  • Distribution: South Africa.

References

• Branstetter, M.G., Longino, J.T. 2022. UCE phylogenomics of New World Cryptopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) elucidates genus boundaries, species boundaries, and the vicariant history of a temperate–tropical disjunction. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(1): 6:1-23 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab031).
• Esteves, F.A., Fisher, B.L. 2021. Corrieopone nouragues gen. nov., sp. nov., a new Ponerinae from French Guiana (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1074, 83–173 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1074.75551).
• 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).