Stigmatomma bruni

Stigmatomma bruni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Stigmatomma
Species:	S. bruni
Binomial name
Stigmatomma bruni Forel, 1912 Specimen labels
Synonyms
Stigmatomma bruni juergi Forel, 1922

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Asian Stigmatomma
• Key to Stigmatomma of China

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: Taiwan (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.

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.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• bruni. Stigmatomma bruni Forel, 1912a: 45 (w.) TAIWAN.
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Taiwan (“Formosa”): Pilam (H. Sauter).
  • Type-depository: probably DEIB.
  • Forel, 1913f: 183 (m.).
  • Combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 167;
  • combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19.
  • Status as species: Forel, 1913f: 183; Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 58; Teranishi, 1940: 56; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 24; Brown, 1960a: 167, 196; Terayama, 1989b: 344; Bolton, 1995b: 61; Xu, 2001d: 552 (in key); Lin & Wu, 2003: 66; Xu, 2006: 152 (in key); Terayama, 2009: 93; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 101; Xu & Chu, 2012: 1180 (in key).
  • Senior synonym of juergi: Brown, 1960a: 168; Bolton, 1995b: 61; Terayama, 2009: 93.
  • Distribution: Taiwan.
• juergi. Stigmatomma bruni r. juergi Forel, 1922: 87 (w.) TAIWAN.
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Taiwan (“Formosa”): Pilam (H. Sauter).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Subspecies of bruni: Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 58; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 25.
  • Junior synonym of bruni: Brown, 1960a: 168; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Terayama, 2009: 93.

References

• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230 (page 168, Combination in Amblyopone, and senior synonym of juergi.)
• Forel, A. 1912a. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Formicidae (Hym.). Entomol. Mitt. 1: 45-61 (page 45, worker described)
• Forel, A. 1913g. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae II. Arch. Naturgesch. (A)79(6 6: 183-202 (page 183, male described)
• Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7(3):e33325 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230.
• 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
• Chapman, J.W. and S.R. Capco. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology (Manila) 1: 1- 327
• Forel A. 1912. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Formicidae (Hym.) (Schluss). Entomol. Mitt. 1: 45-61.
• Forel A. 1913. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae II. Arch. Naturgesch. (A)79(6): 183-202
• Forel A. 1922. Glanures myrmécologiques en 1922. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 30: 87-102.
• Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
• Li Z.h. 2006. List of Chinese Insects. Volume 4. Sun Yat-sen University Press
• Terayama M. 1989. The ant tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Taiwan with description of a new species. Japanese Journal of Entomology 57:343-346.
• Terayama M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266.
• Wheeler W. M. 1929. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24: 27-64.
• Xu Z.-H., and J. J. Chu. 2012. Four New Species of the Amblyoponine Ant Genus Amblyopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Southwestern China with a Key to the Known Asian Species. Sociobiology 59(4): 1175-1196.
• Xu Zheng-hui. 2001. A systematic study on the ant genus Amblyopone Erichson from China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 26(4): 551-556.