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Plagiolepis rogeri
| Plagiolepis rogeri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Plagiolepidini |
| Genus: | Plagiolepis |
| Species: | P. rogeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Plagiolepis rogeri Forel, 1894
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (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. |
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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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rogeri. Plagiolepis rogeri Forel, 1894c: 417 (w.) INDIA.
Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from Bingham 1903.
Worker
Very similar to P. jerdonii in colour, but the head is very finely and very distinctly longitudinally striate, and both pilosity and pubescence are more abundant, the latter especially dense on the scape of the antennae and the tarsi. Head slightly longer than in P. jerdonii, with the posterior margin transverse but not emarginate and with the lateral occipital angles less prominent; mandibles triangular, broader; clypeus more distinctly carinate, opaque, not shining. Thorax narrower, the pro- and mesonotum not so convex, the meso-metanotal emargination shallow and not so well-marked as in P. jerdoni. Node of the pedicel and abdomen similar to those of P. jerdonii. the former very strongly inclined to the front.
Length - 1.5 mm
References
- Forel, A. 1894c. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IV. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 8: 396-420 (page 417, worker described)
- Phosrithong, N., Rattanachan, K., Satakoune, L., Jaitrong, W. 2024. Two new species of the ant genus Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Fomicinae) from Indochina. Far Eastern Entomologist 492, 1–14 (doi:10.25221/fee.492.1).
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
- Tiwari R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4): 1-96.