Fulakora punctulata
Fulakora punctulata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
Genus: | Fulakora |
Species: | F. punctulata |
Binomial name | |
Fulakora punctulata (Clark, 1934) |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -41.06666565° to -41.41666667°.
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
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Worker. Specimen code casent0172221. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia. |
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Worker. Specimen code casent0172220. 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.
- punctulata. Amblyopone (Fulakora) punctulata Clark, 1934b: 28, pl. 2, figs. 9, 10 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Tasmania).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype ergatoid queens (numbers not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Tasmania, Trevallyn (V.V. Hickman).
- Type-depository: MVMA.
- Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
- combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 169; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Amblyopone (Fulakora) punctulata Clark, 1934: Syntype, 2 worker(s) and/or queen(s), Trevallyn, Tasmania, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
Description
References
- Clark, J. (1934). New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 8: 21–47.
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
- 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
- Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230.
- CSIRO Collection
- Clark J. 1934. New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum, Victoria 8: 21-47.
- Lowery B. B., and R. J. Taylor. 1994. Occurrence of ant species in a range of sclerophyll forest communities at Old Chum Dam, north-eastern Tasmania. Australian Entomologist 21: 11-14.
- Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
- Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.