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: Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea (type locality), Philippines.
Oriental Region: Thailand.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
Check data from AntWeb
Biology
Both winged queens and gamergates reproduce (Ito 1995)
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- quadridenta. Platythyrea quadridenta Donisthorpe, 1941c: 134 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Kokoda, Wharton Range, 1200 ft, v.1933 (L.E. Cheesman).
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- [Misspelled as quadridentata by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 49.]
- Imai, et al. 1984: 67 (k.).
- Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 49; Wilson, 1958a: 152; Brown, 1975: 9, 52; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 37; Phengsi, et al. 2018: 98 (in key).
- Distribution: Malaysia (Sabah), Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand.
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]
- 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)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- 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.
- CSIRO Collection
- Donisthorpe H. 1941. Descriptions of new species of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)7: 129-144.
- Ito, F.; Yamane, S.; Eguchi, K.; Noerdjito, W. A.; Kahono, S.; Tsuji, K.; Ohkawara, K.; Yamauchi, K.; Nishida, T.; Nakamura, K. 2001. Ant species diversity in the Bogor Botanic Garden, West Java, Indonesia, with descriptions of two new species of the genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Tropics 10:379-404.
- Jaitrong W.; Nabhitabhata, J. 2005. A list of known ant species of Thailand. The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(1): 9-54.
- Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
- Snelling R. R. 1998. Insect Part 1: The social Hymenoptera. In Mack A. L. (Ed.) A Biological Assessment of the Lakekamu Basin, Papua New Guinea, RAP 9. 189 ppages
- Snelling R. R. 2000. Ants of the Wapoga river area, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. In Mack, Andrew L. and Leeanne E. Alonso (eds.). 2000. A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 14, Conservation International, Washington, DC.
- Wilson E. O. 1958. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 101-153.
- Wilson Edward O. 1959. Adaptive Shift and Dispersal in a Tropical Ant Fauna. Evolution 13(1): 122-144
