Fulakora gracilis

Fulakora gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Fulakora
Species:	F. gracilis
Binomial name
Fulakora gracilis (Clark, 1934) Specimen labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -38.55° to -38.63333333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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

Paratype of Fulakora gracilis. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172198. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Queen

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172200. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Nomenclature

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

• gracilis. Amblyopone (Fulakora) gracilis Clark, 1934c: 52, pl. 4, figs. 3, 4 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “two nests”), 1 syntype queen.
  • Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Otway Ranges, Beech Forest, i.1932 (J. Clark).
  • Type-depository: MVMA.
  • Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
  • Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168, 211; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

• Syntype, 1 worker, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Syntype, 3 workers, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
• Syntype, 2 workers, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
• Syntype, queen(s), Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia.

References

• Clark, J. (1934). Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 8: 48–73.
• 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).