Lordomyrma jingpo

Lordomyrma jingpo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Lordomyrma
Species:	L. jingpo
Binomial name
	Lordomyrma jingpo; Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021

All individuals known for this species originated from a single nest containing 12 workers, 1 queen and 3 winged females found within soil, classified as latosol. The site was within a fragmented valley lowland rainforest.

Photo Gallery

Figs. 1–3. Lordomyrma jingpo, holotype worker. (1) Head in full-face view; (2) body in profile view; (3) body in dorsal view. Photographs by Zhenghui Xu. (Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021)
Figs. 4–6. Lordomyrma jingpo, paratype queen. (4) Head in full-face view; (5) body in profile view; (6) body in dorsal view. Photographs by Zhenghui Xu. (Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021)
Fig. 7. Wing of Lordomyrma jingpo, paratype female. Photograph by Zhenghui Xu. (Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021)

Identification

This species is closest to Lordomyrma reticulata (Figs. 25, 108), but its first gastral segment smooth and shiny, with sparse piliferous small punctures; body bicolored, head, mesosoma and waist blackish brown, gaster reddish brown; forecoxae lateral side smooth and shiny. The new species is also similar to Lordomyrma idianale (Figs. 106-107), but propodeal spines downcurved in profile view; head dorsum coarsely uniformly reticulate, without incorporated traces of longitudinal striae between the antennal scrobes.

Figs. 24–26. Head in full-face view. (24) Lordomyrma furcifera (CASENT0922236, photograph by Michele Esposito); (25) L. reticulata (CASENT0012197, photograph by April Nobile); (26) L. azumai (CASENT0172483, photograph by April Nobile). From AntWeb 2021. (Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021)
Figs. 108–110. Body in profile (108) and gaster in dorsal view (109-110). (108-109) Lordomyrma reticulata, type worker (from AntWeb 2021, CASENT0012197, photographs by April Nobile); (110) L. jingpo, photograph by Zhenghui Xu. (Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021)
Figs.106–107. Lordomyrma idianale, holotype worker. (106) Head in full-face view; (107) body in profile view (Taylor 2012: figs 29-30). (Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021)

Keys including this Species

Key to Lordomyrma species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 24.68° to 24.68°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: China (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

jingpo. Lordomyrma jingpo Liu, Xu & Hita Garcia, 2021: 3, figs. 1-7 (w.q.) CHINA (Yunnan).

Type Material

Holotype worker: China, Yunnan Province, Yingjiang County, Nabang Town, Palan Village, 24.6831°N, 97.5858°E, 590 m, collected from a nest in soil in valley lowland rainforest, 22. III. 2015, Ying Zheng leg., No. A15-381 (Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China).
Paratypes: 11 workers, 1 queen and 3 winged females, from the same nest of holotype worker and with the same data (Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China; Guangxi Normal University).

Description

References

Liu, X., Xu. Z., Hita Garcia, F. 2021. Taxonomic review of the ant genus Lordomyrma Emery, 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from China, with description of two new species and an identification key to the known species of the world. Asian Myrmecology 14: e014007 (doi:10.20362/am.014007).