Platythyrea quadridenta
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| Platythyrea quadridenta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Platythyreini |
| Genus: | Platythyrea |
| Species: | P. quadridenta |
| Binomial name | |
| Platythyrea quadridenta Donisthorpe, 1941
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| At a Glance | • Gamergate |
Contents
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Malaysia, New Guinea (type locality), Philippines.
Oriental Region: Thailand.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Both winged queens and gamergates reproduce (Ito 1995)
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- quadridenta. Platythyrea quadridenta Donisthorpe, 1941c: 134 (w.) NEW GUINEA. Imai, Brown, et al. 1984: 67 (k.).
Description
Karyotype
- n = 9, 2n = 18 (Malaysia) (Imai et al., 1983).
References
- Donisthorpe, H. 1941c. Descriptions of new species of ants from New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(7): 129-144 (page 134, worker described)
- Ito, F. 1995 ("1994"). Colony composition of two Malaysian ponerine ants, Platythyrea tricuspidata and P. quadridenta: sexual reproduction by workers and production of queens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 101:209-218. [1995-11-20] PDF
- Imai, H. T.; Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kubota, M.; Yong, H.-S.; Tho, Y. P. 1984. Chromosome observations on tropical ants from western Malaysia. II. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 34: 66-69 (page 67, karyotype described)
