Nylanderia deyrupi

Nylanderia deyrupi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Lasiini
Genus:	Nylanderia
Species:	N. deyrupi
Binomial name
Nylanderia deyrupi Messer, Cover & Rabeling, 2020

At a Glance

• Workerless Inquiline

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Nearctic Region: United States (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

Biology

Association with Other Organisms

 Explore: Show all Associate data or Search these data. See also a list of all data tables or learn how data is managed.

This species is a workerless inquiline for the ant Nylanderia wojciki (a host) in United States (Messer et al., 2020).

Nomenclature

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

• deyrupi. Nylanderia deyrupi Messer, Cover & Rabeling, 2020: 29, figs. 2A, C, E (queen), 3A, C, E (male) (q.m.) UNITED STATES.

Type Material

• Holotype, queen, Florida, Highlands Co., Archbold Biological Station, 61 m, United States, 27.187°N 81.335°W / 27.187; -81.335, 15 September 1995, Stefan P. Cover, MCZ-ENT00716681, Museum of Comparative Zoology; scrubby flat-woods, slash pine, Quercus inopina, Q. geminata, Palmetto, Lyonia lucida: under leaf-litter of oak canopy at edge gap in pure sand.
• Paratypes: USA
  • 1 alate queen; same data as for holotype; MCZ-ENT00716678 (Museum of Comparative Zoology)
  • 1 male; same data as for holotype; MCZ-ENT00716681 (Museum of Comparative Zoology)
  • 1 alate queen, 1 male (on same pin); same data as for holotype; MCZ-ENT00716684 (Social Insect Biodiversity Repository, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona)
  • 1 alate queen, 1 male (on same pin); same data as for holotype; MCZ-ENT00716690 (Social Insect Biodiversity Repository, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona)
  • 1 male; same data as for holotype; MCZ-ENT00716693 (Museum of Comparative Zoology)
  • 1 male; same data as for holotype; MCZ-ENT00716694 (Museum of Comparative Zoology)

References

• Messer, S.J., Cover, S.P., Rabeling, C. 2020. Two new species of socially parasitic Nylanderia ants from the southeastern United States. ZooKeys 921: 23–48 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.921.46921).