Odontomachus circulus

Odontomachus circulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Odontomachus
Species:	O. circulus
Binomial name
Odontomachus circulus Wang, M., 1993

Identification

A member of the Odontomachus rixosus group.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Odontomachus of China

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 29.78° to 21.85766667°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: China (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.

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.

Castes

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  Liu, C. et al. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains, Figure 124, Odontomachus circulus.

Nomenclature

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

• circulus. Odontomachus circulus Wang, M. 1993a: 220, fig. 1 (w.) CHINA (Yunnan).
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 94 paratype workers.
  • Type-locality: holotype China: Yunnan Prov., Longlin County, 1600 m., 15.v.1955 (Bushik); paratypes: 18 workers with same data, 11 workers Ruili County, 1450 m., 17.v.1956 (B. Zhou), 22 workers Luxi County, 1200 m., 18.v.1955 (Kryzhanovski), 13 workers Jiangdong County, 1000-1200 m., v.1956-iii.1957 (Kryzhanovski & Popov), 24 workers Xishuangbanna 580-1250 m., iii.1957-6.ix.1958 (Zheng, Popov, Hong & Panfilov), 3 workers Baoshan, 800-1200 m., 5-11.v.1955 (K. B.), 1 worker Zhenyuan County, 1100 m., 25.iv.1955 (Kryzhanovski), 1 worker Gejiu, 600 m., 19.v.1956 (D. Panfilov), 1 worker Pingbian Miao Aut. Co., 1350 m., 25.vi.1956 (D. Panfilov).
  • Type-depository: IZAS.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 295; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 106; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 60; Chen, Shi & Zhou, 2018: 6 (in key).
  • Distribution: China.

References

• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
• Satria, R. 2017. Taxonomy of the ant genus Odontomachus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) in the Indo-Chinese and Indo-Malayan subregions. Ph.D. thesis, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
• Wang, M. 1993a. Taxonomic study of the ant tribe Odontomachini in China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sci. Treatise Syst. Evol. Zool. 2: 219-230 (page 220, fig. 1 worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Chen P., Y. Su, S. S. Rao, Y. F. Long, and C. H. Du. 2012. Study on the ant diversity in different Illicium verum stands. Journal of West China Forestry Science 41(1): 60-68.
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• Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
• Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
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• Song Y., Z. Xu, C. Li, N. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Jiang, and F. Mo. 2013. An Analysis on the Ant Fauna of the Nangun river Nature Reserve in Yunnan, China. Forest Research 26(6): 773-780.
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