Myopias castaneicola

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Myopias castaneicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Myopias
Species: M. castaneicola
Binomial name
Myopias castaneicola
(Donisthorpe, 1938)

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

Nomenclature

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

  • castaneicola. Trapeziopelta castaneicola Donisthorpe, 1938d: 596 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
    • Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
    • Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“Papua”):Kokoda, 1200 ft, x.1933 (L.E. Cheesman).
    • Type-depository: BMNH.
    • Combination in Myopias: Bolton, 1995b: 269.
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 75; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Probst, Guénard & Boudinot, 2015: 204 (in key).
    • Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Donisthorpe H. 1938. New species and varieties of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)1: 593-599.
  • Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.