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Lioponera parva
| Lioponera parva | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Lioponera |
| Species: | L. parva |
| Binomial name | |
| Lioponera parva Forel, 1900 | |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (type locality), Sri Lanka.
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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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- parva. Lioponera longitarsus r. parva Forel, 1900d: 330 (w.m.) INDIA (West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: India: Calcutta (= Kolkata) (Rothney), Barrackpore (Rothney), Madras (= Chennai) (Rothney), Orissa (= Odisha) (Taylor), Dehra Dun (Smythies), Poona (= Pune) (Wroughton), and Belgaum (Wroughton).
- Type-depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
- Subspecies of longitarsus: Forel, 1906b: 91.
- Junior synonym of longitarsus: Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 144.
- Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 27; Emery, 1911d: 12; Donisthorpe, 1939a: 254; Menozzi, 1939a: 327; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 21; Tang, J., Li, et al. 1995: 26; Tiwari, 1999: 33; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 269; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 22.
- Distribution: China, India.
Description
Worker
Bingham (1903): Closely resembles L. longitarsus, but is smaller, with a proportionately longer and narrower head, the apical three joints of the flagellum of the antenna; proportionately thicker, and the basal segment of the abdomen larger. Head, thorax and basal abdominal segment brownish red; rest of abdomen blackish; mandibles, antennae and legs testaceous.
Length: 2.5 mm
Male
Bingham (1903): Similar to the worker in colour, smooth and shining.
Length: 2.5 - 3 mm
References
- Bharti, H., Guénard, B., Bharti, M. & Economo, E.P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states. ZooKeys 551: 1-83.
- Forel, A. 1900d. Les formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part 7. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13: 303-332.
- Forel, A. 1906b. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 42: 79-94.