Fulakora egregia

Fulakora egregia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Fulakora
Species:	F. egregia
Binomial name
Fulakora egregia (Kusnezov, 1955)

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Argentina (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.

Nomenclature

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

• egregia. Ericapelta egregia Kusnezov, 1955: 274, figs. 5c-7 (m.) ARGENTINA (Tucumán).
  • Type-material: holotype male, 1 paratype male.
  • Type-locality: holotype Argentina: Tucumán, 1.xii.1953, no. 9231 (N. Kusnezov); paratype with same data but 23.xi.1953, no.9131.
  • Type-depository: IMLT.
  • Combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 168;
  • combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
  • Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168, 183; Kempf, 1972a: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
  • Distribution: Argentina.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 62, catalogue)
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230 (page 168, Combination in Amblyopone)
• Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
• Kusnezov, N. 1955b. Zwei neue Ameisengattungen aus Tucuman (Argentinien). Zool. Anz. 154: 268-277 (page 274, figs. 5-7, male 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).