Paratopula macta

Paratopula macta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Paratopula
Species:	P. macta
Binomial name
Paratopula macta Bolton, 1988 Specimen Label

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Paratopula species
• Key to Subfamily of Philippine Ants

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 14.362775° to 14.362775°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Brunei Darussalam (type locality), Indonesia, Malaysia (type locality), Philippines.
Oriental Region: Laos, Thailand.

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

.	Owned by Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0178561. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MCZ, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Male (alate). Specimen code casent0178562. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MCZ, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0178563. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MCZ, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Nomenclature

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

• macta. Paratopula macta Bolton, 1988b: 140, fig. 2 (w.q.) BORNEO (Brunei; East Malaysia: Sabah, Sarawak), PHILIPPINES (Luzon I., Negros I.).
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
  • Type-locality: holotype Brunei: Ulu Temburong, 16-22.ii.1982, LP283MT (M.C. Day); paratype Malaysia: Sabah, Danum Valley, 10.xi.1986 (P. Eggleton).
  • Type-depositories: BMNH (holotype); MCZC (paratype).
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 312; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 31; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 48; Xu & Xu, 2011: 595 (in key); Jaitrong, Guénard, et al. 2016: 38; Luo & Guénard, 2017: 10 (in key).
  • Distribution: Brunei, Laos, Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak), Philippines (Luzon, Negros), Thailand.

Type Material

• Holotype, worker, Ulu Temburong, Brunei Darussalam, 16-22 February 1982, M.C. Day, LP283MT, The Natural History Museum.
• Paratype, 1 worker, Danum Valley, Sabah, 558m, Malaysia, 4.91667°N 117.66667°E / 4.91667; 117.66667, 10 November 1986, P. Eggleton, ANTC8753, Museum of Comparative Zoology.

References

• Bolton, B. 1988b. A review of Paratopula Wheeler, a forgotten genus of myrmicine ants (Hym., Formicidae). Entomol. Mon. Mag. 124: 125-143.
• Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
• Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
• Hasin, S., Tasen, W. 2020. Ant community composition in urban areas of Bangkok, Thailand. Agriculture and Natural Resources 54: 507-514 (doi:10.34044/j.anres.2020.54.5.07).
• Khachonpisitsak, S., Yamane, S., Sriwichai, P., Jaitrong, W. 2020. An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 998, 1–182 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.998.54902).
• Luo, Y.Y., Guénard, B. 2016. Descriptions of a new species and the gyne in the rarely collected arboreal genera Paratopula and Rotastruma (Hymenopytera: Formicidae) from Hong Kong, with a discussion on their ecology. Asian Myrmecology 8: 1-16 (DOI:10.20362/am.008016).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Bolton B. 1988. A review of Paratopula Wheeler, a forgotten genus of myrmicine ants (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 124: 125-143
• Jaitrong W., B. Guenard, E. P. Economo, N. Buddhakala, and S. Yamane. 2016. A checklist of known ant species of Laos (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Asian Myrmecology 8: 1-32. DOI: 10.20362/am.008019
• Jaitrong W.; Nabhitabhata, J. 2005. A list of known ant species of Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(1): 9-54.
• 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
• Sheela S., 2008. First record of the rare ant Paratopula ceylonica Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Uttar Pradesh, India with a note to the genus. J. Exp. Zool. India 11(2): 423-425.
• Xu Z. H., and G. L. Xu. 2011. A new species of the genus Paratopula Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Tibet. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 36(3): 595-57.