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Fulakora lucida
| Fulakora lucida | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
| Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
| Genus: | Fulakora |
| Species: | F. lucida |
| Binomial name | |
| Fulakora lucida (Clark, 1934)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -34.66667175° to -35.55°.
| 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. |
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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. |
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Biology
Castes
Worker
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| Paratype of Fulakora lucida. Worker. Specimen code casent0172215. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia. |
Male
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| Male (alate). Specimen code casent0172216. 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.
- lucida. Amblyopone (Fulakora) lucida Clark, 1934b: 27, pl. 2, fig. 8 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Australian Capital Territory).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Federal (= Australian) Capital Territory, Corrie Creek, 20.vii.1930 (G.F. Hill).
- Type-depository: MVMA.
- Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
- combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168, 210; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
Type Material
- Amblyopone (Fulakora) lucida Clark, 1934: Syntype, 3 workers, Corrie Creek, ACT, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Amblyopone (Fulakora) lucida Clark, 1934: Syntype, 1 worker, Corrie Creek, ACT, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
Description
References
- Clark, J. (1934). New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 8: 21–47.
- 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).