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Myopias philippinensis
| Myopias philippinensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Myopias |
| Species: | M. philippinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Myopias philippinensis (Menozzi, 1925)
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Philippines (type locality).
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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- philippinensis. Trapeziopelta philippinensis Menozzi, 1925c: 441, pl. 1, fig. 3 (w.) PHILIPPINES (Mindanao I.).
- Type-material: holotype(?) worker.
- [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
- Type-locality: Philippines: Mindanao, Bukidnon, Tangkulan (C.F. Baker).
- Type-depository: IEUB.
- Combination in Myopias: Bolton, 1995b: 269.
- Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 76; Baltazar, 1966: 248; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Xu, Burwell & Nakamura, 2014b: 166 (in key).
- Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao).
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 269, Combination in Myopias)
- Menozzi, C. 1925c. Nouvelles fourmis des Philippines. Philipp. J. Sci. 28: 439-451. (page 441, pl. 1, fig. 3 worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
- Xu Z.-H.; C. J. Burwell., and A. Nakamura. 2014. A new species of the ponerine ant genus Myopias Roger from Yunnan, China, with a key to the known Oriental species. Sociobiology 61(2): 164-170.