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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -17.8802° to -20.06666667°.
Afrotropical Region: Comoros.
Malagasy Region: Madagascar (type locality), Mayotte.
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.
- mocquerysi. Platythyrea mocquerysi Emery, 1899f: 270 (w.q.) MADAGASCAR.
- Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Brown, 1975: 46).
- [Note: original type-series consisted of syntype workers (number not stated), and 1 syntype queen.]
- Type-locality: Madagascar: Antongil Bay (A. Mocquerys).
- Type-depositories: MHNG (lectotype); MHNG, MSNG (other original syntypes).
- Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 29; Arnold, 1915: 32; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 760, 1007; Arnold, 1926: 196; Brown, 1975: 8, 46; Bolton, 1995b: 336.
- Senior synonym of debilior: Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 337.
- Distribution: Madagascar.
- debilior. Platythyrea mocquerysi var. debilior Forel, 1907g: 76 (w.) MADAGASCAR.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-localities: Madagascar: Tulear (A. Voeltzkow), and N Mahafaly (A. Voeltzkow).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Subspecies of mocquerysi: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1007.
- Junior synonym of mocquerysi: Brown, 1975: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 336.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1 1: 1-115 (page 8, senior synonym of debilior)
- Emery, C. 1899e. Formiche di Madagascar raccolte dal Sig. A. Mocquerys nei pressi della Baia di Antongil (1897-1898). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 31: 263-290 (page 270, worker, queen described)
- Brown W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1): 1-115.
- Fisher B. L. 1997. Biogeography and ecology of the ant fauna of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 31: 269-302.
- Fisher B. L. 2003. Formicidae, ants. Pp. 811-819 in: Goodman, S. M.; Benstead, J. P. (eds.) 2003. The natural history of Madagascar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xxi + 1709 pp.
- Forel A. 1907. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2: 75-92.
- Ravelomanana A., and B. L. Fisher. 2013. Diversity of ants in burned and unburned grassland , and dry deciduous forest in the Beanka Reserve, Melaky Region, western Madagascar. Malagasy Nature 7: 171-183.
- Ward P. S. 2007. The ant genus Leptanilloides: discovery of the male and evaluation of phylogenetic relationships based on DNA sequence data. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 637-649.
- Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 1005-1055
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