Fulakora agostii

Fulakora agostii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Fulakora
Species:	F. agostii
Binomial name
	Fulakora agostii; (Lacau & Delabie, 2002) Specimen labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Stigmatomma species of the Americas

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -14.19416667° to -25.4538°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Brazil (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.

Biology

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb


Worker. Specimen code casent0102201. Photographer April Nobile, 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.

agostii. Amblyopone agostii Lacau & Delabie, 2002: 36, figs. 3-4 (w.) BRAZIL (Bahia).
- Type-material: holotype worker, 11 paratype workers.
- Type-locality: holotype Brazil: Bahia, Mt Pascoal, 16°52’03’’S, 39°55’03’’W, 18.vii.1997 (J.R. Maia dos Santos); paratypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: MZSP (holotype); AMNH, BMNH, CPDC, LACM, MCZC, MNHN, MZSP (paratypes).
- Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
- combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Feitosa, 2015c: 97.
- Distribution: Brazil

Description

Lacau and Delabie 2002, page 36.

Lacau and Delabie 2002, page 37.

References

Lacau, S. ; Delabie, J. H. C. 2002. Description de trois nouvelles espèces d'Amblyopone avec quelques notes biogéographiques sur le genre au Brésil (Formicidae, Ponerinae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 107(1): 33-41. (page 36, figs. 3-4 worker described)
Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology, 41, 683–693 (doi:10.1111/syen.12186).
Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7(3):e33325 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325).