Myrmoteras tonboli

Myrmoteras tonboli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Myrmoteratini
Genus:	Myrmoteras
Species:	M. tonboli
Binomial name
	Myrmoteras tonboli; Agosti, 1992 Specimen Labels

No information about the biology of this species is available, except that the colonies examined were collected from leaf litter in the highland primary forests (Satria & Eguchi, 2024).

Identification

Satria & Eguchi (2024) - The following diagnosis partly modified from Agosti (1992), based on our examination of the newly collected material. Body generally dark brown, with antennae, mandible and legs paler than body (Fig. 3); body with sparse erect hairs; head in full-face view smooth and shiny, except area between antennal insertions with faint longitudinal rugae; frontal sulcus present, shallow and narrow; palp formula 5,3; mesopleuron, and lateral face of propodeum smooth and shiny; posteriormost of metapleuron with faint longitudinal rugae; propodeum in lateral view with dorsal outline roundly convex.

Keys including this Species

Key to Sumatran Myrmoteras species

Distribution

So far known only from the highland of Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu, 1500–1600 m a.s.l., Sabah, Malaysia) and Sumatra (Mt. Sago, ca. 2000 m alt., 50 Kota District, West Sumatra, Indonesia) (Satria & Eguchi, 2024).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia.

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.

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.

Biology

Castes

Satria & Eguchi (2024), Fig. 3. Myrmoteras (Myrmoteras) tonboli Agosti, 1992, worker (individual code: SEMUT25vii22B; colony code: SAGO-4vii2000D). A — habitus in lateral view; B — head in full-face view; C — mesosoma in dorsal view.
Satria & Eguchi (2024), Fig. 4. Myrmoteras (Myrmoteras) tonboli Agosti, 1992, queen (individual code: SEMUT24vii22B; colony code: SAGO-4vii2000D). A — habitus in lateral view; B — head in full-face view; C — mesosoma in dorsal view.
Satria & Eguchi (2024), Fig. 7. Queens of Myrmoteras. A−B — forewing; C−D — hindwing; A, C — Myrmoteras (Myrmoteras) baslerorum Agosti, 1992 (individual code: SEMUT07ix22A; colony code: SAGO-4viiM); B, D — Myrmoteras (Myrmoteras) tonboli Agosti, 1992, (individual code: SEMUT24vii22B; colony code: SAGO-4vii2000D).

Nomenclature

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

tonboli. Myrmoteras (Myagroteras) tonboli Agosti, 1992: 427, figs. 8, 13, 14 (w.) BORNEO.

Description

References

Agosti, D. 1992. Revision of the ant genus Myrmoteras of the Malay Archipelago (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Rev. Suisse Zool. 99: 405-429 (page 427, figs. 8, 13, 14 worker described)
Satria, R., Egushi, K. 2024. Notes on the genus Myrmoteras Forel, 1893 (Formicidae: Formicinae) from Sumatra: a new species, new record and new description of queens. Invertebrate Zoology 21(2), 210–220 (doi:10.15298/invertzool.21.2.08).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58