Pachycondyla vidua
Pachycondyla vidua | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Pachycondyla |
Species: | P. vidua |
Binomial name | |
Pachycondyla vidua (Smith, F., 1857) |
Schmith & Shattuck (2014), during their revision of the subfamily Ponerinae, were unable to determine the proper generic placement of this taxon. They left it assigned to Pachycondyla but noted that this placement is undoubtedly incorrect. Exact placement will require detailed examination of relevant material of this taxa.
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 2.547988° to 2.547988°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
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. |
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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
Images from AntWeb
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Holotype of Ponera vidua. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0901367. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by OUM, Oxford, UK. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- vidua. Ponera vidua Smith, F. 1857a: 68 (m.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
- Type-material: holotype male (gaster missing).
- Type-locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak, “SAR.” (A.R. Wallace).
- Type-depository: OXUM.
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448;
- incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 155.
- [Note: generic combination equivocal: certainly not a Pachycondyla; perhaps Pseudoneoponera.]
- Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 89; Smith, F. 1871a: 321; Dalla Torre, 1893: 43; Emery, 1911d: 116; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 311; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 57.
- Distribution: Malaysia (Sarawak).
The following notes on F. Smith type specimens have been provided by Barry Bolton (details):
Ponera vidua
Holotype male in Oxford University Museum of Natural History (gaster missing). Labelled “SAR” (= Sarawak) and with a Donisthorpe type-label.
Description
References
- Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(10): 441-476 (page 448, Combination in Pachycondyla)
- Marcineiro, F.S.R., Lattke, J.E. 2024. Review of ant genus Pachycondyla Smith, 1858 in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 54611, 1–62 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5461.1.1).
- Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).
- Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 2: 42-88 (page 68, male described)
- Yamane, S., Tanaka, H.O., Hasimoto, Y., Ohashi, M., Meleng, P., Itioka, T. 2021. A list of ants from Lambir Hills National Park and its vicinity, with their biological information: Part II. Subfamilies Leptanillinae, Proceratiinae, Amblyoponinae, Ponerinae, Dorylinae, Dolichoderinae, Ectatomminae and Formicinae. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University 31, 87–157.
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
- Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
- 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
- Smith, F. "Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 (1857): 42-88.
- Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.