Fulakora smithi
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| Fulakora smithi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
| Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
| Genus: | Fulakora |
| Species: | F. smithi |
| Binomial name | |
| Fulakora smithi (Brown, 1960)
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Contents
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
Worker
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Head view
Side view
Top view
Specimen labels
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- smithi. Amblyopone smithi Brown, 1960a: 211, fig. 40 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia).
- Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
- Type-locality: holotype Australia: South Australia, Lofty Ranges, nr Mt Lofty, ca 550 m., 8.xii.1950 (W.L. Brown); paratype with same data.
- Type-depositories: MCZC (holotype); unknown (paratype).
- [Note: Brown, 1960a: 212 says the paratype “to be deposited in a major Australian collection”; presently unknown.]
- Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
- combination in Fulakora: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 63.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, Aldgate near Mt. Lofty, Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Description
References
- 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.
- 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).
