Fulakora papuana

Fulakora papuana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Fulakora
Species:	F. papuana
Binomial name
Fulakora papuana (Taylor, 1979) Specimen labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Asian Stigmatomma

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -7.199999809° to -8.883330345°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

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

Worker. Specimen code casent0102190. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Worker. Specimen code casent0102475. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Worker. Specimen code casent0102476. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Paratype of Fulakora papuana. Worker. Specimen code casent0172236. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Holotype of Fulakora papuana. Worker. Specimen code casent0172261. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Queen

Images from AntWeb

Paratype of Fulakora papuana. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172237. 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.

• papuana. Amblyopone papuana Taylor, 1979: 828, figs. 5-8 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 29 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen.
  • Type-locality: holotype Papua New Guinea: Morobe Dist., Bulolo, 15.ix.1970 (B.B. Lowery); paratypes: 28 workers, 1 queen with same data, 1 worker Papua New Guinea: Northern Dist., Kokoda, 44.v.1973 (P.M. Room).
  • Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, DASF, MCZC, MHNG, ZMUC (paratypes).
  • Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 62; Xu & Chu, 2012: 1183 (in key).
  • Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 62, catalogue)
• Taylor, R.W. 1979. Melanesian ants of the genus Amblyopone. Australian Journal of Zoology 26 (1978): 823-839. [24.i.1979.] (page 828, figs. 5-8 worker, queen 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

• CSIRO Collection
• Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
• Taylor R. W. 1978. Melanesian ants of the genus Amblyopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 26: 823-839.
• Xu Z.-H., and J. J. Chu. 2012. Four New Species of the Amblyoponine Ant Genus Amblyopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Southwestern China with a Key to the Known Asian Species. Sociobiology 59(4): 1175-1196.