Fulakora saundersi

Fulakora saundersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Fulakora
Species:	F. saundersi
Binomial name
Fulakora saundersi (Forel, 1892) Specimen labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -34.16° to -46.934°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: New Zealand (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

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Worker. Specimen code casent0172248. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Worker. Specimen code casent0172249. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Queen

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172250. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0178862. Photographer Erin Prado, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Male

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Male (alate). Specimen code casent0178474. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Nomenclature

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

• saundersi. Amblyopone saundersi Forel, 1892c: 336 (q.) NEW ZEALAND (North I.).
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: New Zealand: (no further data) (Brown).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Clark, 1928a: 36 (w.).
  • Combination in Stigmatomma: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 15; Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Stigmatomma (Fulakora): Mann, 1919: 279;
  • combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1958h: 15;
  • combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
  • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 15; Forel, 1905a: 354; Emery, 1911d: 25; Clark, 1928a: 36; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 8; Brown, 1958h: 15 (redescription); Brown, 1960a: 169, 209; Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 102; Taylor, 1987a: 7; Bolton, 1995b: 63; Don, 2007: 54.
  • Distribution: New Zealand.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 63, catalogue)
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterol. 1: 1-50 (page 15, Combination in Amblyopone)
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230 (page 209, see also)
• Clark, J. 1928a. Australian Formicidae. J. R. Soc. West. Aust. 14: 29-41 (page 36, worker described)
• Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 15, Combination in Stigmatomma)
• Forel, A. 1892c. Die Ameisen Neu-Seelands. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 8: 331-343 (page 336, queen described)
• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63: 273-391 (page 279, Combination in Stigmatomma (Fulakora))
• 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.
• Brown WL. 1958. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1.1: 1-50.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50.
• CSIRO Collection
• Clark J. 1928. Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 14: 29-41.
• Cumber RA. Distributional and biological notes on sixteen North Island species of Formicidae. 10-14.
• Cumber, R. A. 1959. Distributional and biological notes on sixteen North Island species of Formicidae (Hymenoptera). New Zealand Entomologist 2(4):10-14.
• Cumber, R.A. 1959. Distributional and biological notes on sixteen North Island species of Formicidae (Hymenoptera)
• Don AW. Ants from the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. 1994. New Zealand Entomologist 17:22-29.
• Don, A. W. 1994. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 17:22-29.
• Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
• Forel A. 1905. A revision of the species of the Formicidae (ants) of New Zealand. Trans. Proc. N. Z. Inst. 37: 353-355.
• P. Michel, H. White, K.J.M. Dickinson, B.I.P. Barratt, B.M. Fitzgera. 2008. Invertebrate Survey of coastal habitats and podo. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35(4): 335-349.
• 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.
• Ward D. 2005. Changes to the classification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The Weta 30: 16-18.
• Ward D.F. 2009. The diversity, community composition and seasonality of native and introduced ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in northern New Zealand. Myrmecological News 12: 195-200.
• Ward DF. 2009. The diversity, community composition and seasonality of native and introduced ants in northern New Zealand. Myrmecological News 12: 195-200
• Wheeler WM. 1927. Ants of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 62.4: 120-153.
• Wheeler WM. 1935. Checklist of the ants of Oceania. Bernice P Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 11.11 pg 3-56
• Wheeler, W. M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 121-153
• Wilson EO, Taylor RW. 1967. The ants of Polynesia. Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109.