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Huberia
| Huberia | |
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| Huberia striata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Alliance: | Podomyrma genus group |
| Genus: | Huberia Forel, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| Tetramorium striatum, now Huberia striata | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 species (Species Checklist, Species by Country)
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The little that is known about the biology of what is New Zealand's only endemic ant genus is given on the species pages of the two Huberia species: Huberia brounii and Huberia striata.
Identification
Brown (1958) - The two known species of Huberia are typically myrmicine in habitus, and are generally considered to be related to Monomorium, which genus they do resemble in many points. Huberia, however, has 11 antennal segments in the worker and female, and 12 segments In the male, or one less for each of the castes than Monomorium usually has; even the 11-segmented Monomorium species have 13-segmented antennae in the male caste. With palpal segment counts, the situation is reversed; Huberia workers and females have 5 maxillary and 3 labial segments, and the male of H. striata, at least, has this count also; Monomorium antarcticum has 3 maxillary segments and 2 labial, while workers of a number of other species of Monomorium all have 2, 2 counts (males commonly 3, 2). The clypeus in Huberia has a median longitudinal sulcus usually distinct, but distinct carinae are not present on either side of it as is normal for Monomorium.
Huberia has a slender alitrunk in the worker, with deeply impressed metanotal groove and paired stout, acute teeth on the propodeum. The petiole is pedunculated and unarmed, the postpetiole rounded above and also unarmed; gaster not truncate anteriorly. The worker and female have more or less extensive areas of striation on head and alitrunk, though in H. striata, the body may often be predominantly smooth and shining. Gaster smooth and shining. Hairs fine and tapered, not unusually abundant.
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Distribution
The genus is confined to New Zealand and neighboring islands.
Distribution and Richness based on AntMaps
Species by Region
Number of species within biogeographic regions, along with the total number of species for each region.
| Afrotropical Region | Australasian Region | Indo-Australian Region | Malagasy Region | Nearctic Region | Neotropical Region | Oriental Region | Palaearctic Region | |
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| Species | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Species | 2841 | 1736 | 3045 | 932 | 835 | 4379 | 1741 | 2862 |
Biology
Life History Traits
- Mean colony size: ? (Greer et al., 2021)
- Compound colony type: not parasitic (Greer et al., 2021)
- Nest site: hypogaeic (Greer et al., 2021)
- Diet class: omnivore (Greer et al., 2021)
- Foraging stratum: subterranean/leaf litter (Greer et al., 2021)
- Foraging behaviour: cooperative (Greer et al., 2021)
Castes
Morphology
Worker Morphology
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• Antennal segment count: 11 • Antennal club: 3-4 • Palp formula: 5,3 • Total dental count: 6-12 • Spur formula: 0,0 • Eyes: 11-100 ommatidia • Pronotal Spines: absent • Mesonotal Spines: absent • Propodeal Spines: dentiform • Petiolar Spines: absent • Caste: none or weak • Sting: present • Metaplural Gland: present • Cocoon: absent
Male Morphology
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• Antennal segment count 12 • Antennal club 0 • Palp formula 5,3 • Total dental count 7-9 • Spur formula 0, 0
Phylogeny
| Myrmicinae |
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See Phylogeny of Myrmicinae for details.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- HUBERIA [Myrmicinae: Myrmicini]
- Huberia Forel, 1890b: cv. Type-species: Tetramorium striatum, by monotypy.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
References
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Can. Entomol. 37: 381-384 (page 383, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini)
- Blaimer, B.B., Ward, P.S., Schultz, T.R., Fisher, B.L., Brady, S.G. 2018. Paleotropical diversification dominates the evolution of the hyperdiverse ant tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 2(5): 3; 1-14 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixy013).
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 31, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini [error])
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 220, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 70, Huberia in Myrmicinae)
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 769, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)
- Emery, C. 1914e. Intorno alla classificazione dei Myrmicinae. Rend. Sess. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna Cl. Sci. Fis. (n.s.) 18: 29-42 (page 41, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini [subtribe Monomoriini])
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B: 95-206 (page 165, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 155, Review of genus; page 81, Huberia incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)
- Forel, A. 1890c. Aenictus-Typhlatta découverte de M. Wroughton. Nouveaux genres de Formicides. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 34:cii-cxiv. (page cv, Huberia as genus)
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 51: 229-253 (page 242, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 16, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)
- Jansen, G., Savolainen, R. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of the ant tribe Myrmicini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160(3), 482–495 (doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00604.x).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910b. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. (page 139, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 662, Huberia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)