Fulakora chilensis

Fulakora chilensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Fulakora
Species:	F. chilensis
Binomial name
Fulakora chilensis (Mayr, 1887) Specimen labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Stigmatomma species of the Americas

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Chile (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Castes

Worker

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Nomenclature

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

• chilensis. Amblyopone chilensis Mayr, 1887: 547 (w.) CHILE.
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Chile: Valdivia (E. Reitter).
  • Type-depository: NHMW.
  • Combination in Stigmatomma: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 14;
  • combination in Stigmatomma (Fulakora): Mann, 1919: 279;
  • combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 183;
  • combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
  • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 14; Emery, 1911d: 25; Goetsch & Menozzi, 1935: 94; Brown, 1960a: 167, 183, 192 (in key); Kempf, 1970a: 19; Kempf, 1972a: 19; Snelling, R.R. & Hunt, 1976: 66; Lattke, 1991c: 6 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 61; Lacau & Delabie, 2002: 41 (in key).
  • Distribution: Chile.

References

• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 122: 143-230 (page 183, Combination in Amblyopone)
• Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 14, Combination in Stigmatomma )
• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 63: 273-391 (page 279, Combination in Stigmatomma (Fulakora))
• Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: 511-632 (page 547, 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).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 122: 143-230.
• Goetsch W. and C. Menozzi. 1935. Die Ameisen Chiles. Konowia 14: 94-102
• Goetsch, W., and C. Menozzi. "Die Ameisen Chiles." Konowia 14 (1935): 94-102.
• Kempf W. W. 1970. Catálogo das formigas do Chile. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 23: 17-43.
• Snelling R. R., and J. H. Hunt. 1975. The ants of Chile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Revista Chilena de Entomología 9: 63-129.