Fulakora minima
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| Fulakora minima | |
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| Fulakora minima | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
| Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
| Genus: | Fulakora |
| Species: | F. minima |
| Binomial name | |
| Fulakora minima (Kusnezov, 1955)
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This species occurs in Central and South America and is known from only a handful of males (workers are yet to be collected).
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Argentina (type locality), Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- minima. Paraprionopelta minima Kusnezov, 1955: 271, figs. 1, 2, 5a (m.) ARGENTINA (Tucumán).
- Type-material: holotype male, 8 paratype males.
- Type-locality: holotype Argentina: Tucumán, 29.i.1953, no.8289 (N. Kusnezov); paratypes with same data but 1 male 20.xi.1953, no. 9128, 7 males 1.xii.1953, nos 9198-9201, 9211, 9229.
- Type-depository: IMLT.
- [Paraprionopelta minima Kusnezov, 1953b: 339 (in list), and Kusnezov, 1954b: 34. Nomina nuda.]
- Combination (provisional) in Amblyopone: Brown, 1973b: 183;
- combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 181; Bolton, 1995b: 312.
- Distribution: Argentina.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. (page 183, Probable combination in Amblyopone)
- Kusnezov, N. 1954b. Phyletische Bedeutung der Maxillar- und Labialtaster der Ameisen. Zool. Anz. 153: 28-38 (page 34, Nomen nudum)
- Kusnezov, N. 1955b. Zwei neue Ameisengattungen aus Tucuman (Argentinien). Zool. Anz. 154: 268-277 (page 271, figs. 1, 2, 5a 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).
