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Stigmacros clivispina
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Melophorini |
| Genus: | Stigmacros |
| Species: | S. clivispina |
| Binomial name | |
| Stigmacros clivispina (Forel, 1902)
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -12.7° to -35.48332977°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (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
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Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- clivispina. Acantholepis (Acrostigma) clivispina Forel, 1902h: 482 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- McAreavey, 1957: 47 (q.m.).
- Combination in A. (Stigmacros): Forel, 1905b: 179.
- Combination in Stigmacros: Emery, 1925b: 34.
- Combinatyion in S. (Cyrtostigmacros): McAreavey, 1957: 46.
- aciculata. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) aciculata McAreavey, 1957: 50, figs. 171-173 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- brooksi. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) brooksi McAreavey, 1957: 42, figs. 140-144 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- clarki. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) clarki McAreavey, 1957: 41, figs. 137-139 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- extreminigra. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) extreminigra McAreavey, 1957: 48, figs. 162-164 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- ferruginea. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) ferruginea McAreavey, 1957: 46, figs. 152-154 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- glauerti. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) glauerti McAreavey, 1957: 41, figs. 134-136 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
- sordida. Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) sordida McAreavey, 1957: 52, figs. 177-179 (w.) AUSTRALIA.
- Junior synonym of clivispina: Heterick, 2021: 18.
Type Material
- Acantholepis (Acrostigma) clivispina: Syntype, 3 workers, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Acantholepis (Acrostigma) clivispina: Syntype, 4 workers, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) aciculata: Syntype, 5 workers, 1 male, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Hacker,H., ANIC32-017845, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) aciculata: Syntype, worker(s), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) brooksi: Syntype, 9 worker, 2 queen, 1 male, Manjimup, Western Australia, Australia, Brooks,W.S., ANIC32-017847, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) brooksi: Syntype, 1 worker, 1 queen, 1 male, Manjimup, Western Australia, Australia, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) brooksi: Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), male(s), Manjimup, Western Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) clarki: Syntype, 12 workers, Ludlow, Western Australia, Australia, Clark,J., ANIC32-017849, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) clarki: Syntype, worker(s), Ludlow, Western Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) extreminigra: Syntype, 8 workers, Wyperfeld, Victoria, Australia, Clark,J., ANIC32-017850, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) extreminigra: Syntype, worker(s), Wyperfeld, Victoria, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) ferruginea: Syntype, 13 workers, Mt. Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia, Elston,A.H., ANIC32-017852, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) ferruginea: Syntype, worker(s), Mt. Lofty, South Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) glauerti: Syntype, worker(s), Darlington, Western Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) sordida: Syntype, 8 workers, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Pennifold,W., ANIC32-017856, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Stigmacros (Cyrtostigmacros) sordida: Syntype, worker(s), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
Taxonomic Notes
Heterick (2021): A number of the species described in McAreavey’s Cyrtostigmacros key are separated on the basis of features that seem totally inadequate for the task. Apart from Stigmacros flava, whose workers are uniformly pale, there seem to be only two forms in WA that I have come across, these being S. clivispina, which has a narrow petiolar node and another, light-coloured form that has a broad node which I am calling Stigmacros occidentalis, the earliest name. Stigmacros clivispina can be light or dark coloured or of intermediate colouration, but the head and gaster are virtually always darker than the mesosoma. Lighter-coloured S. clivispina can only be satisfactorily distinguished from S. occidentalis by the shape of the node. Based on my examination of type specimens at ANIC, S. clivispina has at least seven synonyms (i.e. those listed above), all of these being species described by McAreavey. A syntype of Stigmacros castanea was supposedly collected in Mundaring, based on an ANIC record, but McAreavey only mentions seeing eastern Australian material. The specific identity of the syntype is therefore questionable.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 34, Combination in Stigmacros)
- Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 482, worker described)
- Forel, A. 1905e. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 49: 155-185 (page 179, Combination in A. (Stigmacros))
- Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
- McAreavey, J. 1957. Revision of the genus Stigmacros Forel. Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 21: 7-64.