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Loboponera subatra
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Loboponera |
| Species: | L. subatra |
| Binomial name | |
| Loboponera subatra Bolton & Brown, 2002
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Specimens have been collected from rainforest litter.
Identification
Bolton & Brown (2002) - A member of the vigilans species group. This relatively large, slender species is recognized by the lateral blunt tooth on each side of the anteromedian process of the first gastral sternite. In Loboponera vigilans there is usually an angular development in the same place, but the latter species has characteristic sculpture and has a median carina on the first gastral sternite, which is completely absent in subatra.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 3.033333333° to 2.594166667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun (type locality), Central African Republic.
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
Worker
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Holotype of Loboponera subatra. Worker. Specimen code casent0102326. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMUK, London, UK. |
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0408696. Photographer Erin Prado, 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.
- subatra. Loboponera subatra Bolton & Brown, 2002: 7 (w.) CAMEROUN.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
Holotype. TL 7.3, HL 1.32, HW 1.11, CI 84, SL 1.27, SI 114, AL 2.38. Characters of vigilans group and the following. Maximum diameter of eye 0.10. First gastral sternite without trace of a median longitudinal carina. Anteroventral median process of first gastral sternite with an anteriorly directed blunt tooth on each side that also arises from the sternite. Propodeal declivity with a broad triangular tooth near base, the margin above this with a small rounded tubercle; dorsum of alitrunk rounds into declivity. Short pilosity very dense on all dorsal surfaces, also dense on scapes, femora and tibiae. Dorsum of head and alitrunk predominantly longitudinally costaterugose, the alitrunk also with foveolae but most of these are partially effaced by the longitudinal component; foveolae are most clearly defined on propodeum. Second gastal tergite longitudinally costate-rugose, the sculpture better defined here than on the first tergite, where the foveolate component is more obvious.
Type Material
Holotype worker, Cameroun: Nkoemvon, 1980, P74 (D. Jackson) (The Natural History Museum).
References
- Bolton, B. and Brown, W. L., Jr.. 2002. Loboponera gen. n. and a review of the Afrotropical Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum London (Entomology). 71:1-18. (page 7, worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Fisher B. L. 2006. Boloponera vicans gen.n. and sp.n. and two new species of the Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 111-118.