Stigmatomma caliginosum

Stigmatomma caliginosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Stigmatomma
Species:	S. caliginosum
Binomial name
	Stigmatomma caliginosum; (Onoyama, 1999)

Common Name

Hime-nokogiri-hari-ari
Language:	Japanese

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Japan (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.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

caliginosum. Amblyopone caliginosa Onoyama, 1999: 158, figs. 1-9 (w.q.) JAPAN.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 5 pratype workers, 1 paratype queen.
- Type-locality: holotype Japan: Kanagawa Pref., Cape Manazuru, 13.xii.1981 (K. Masuko); paratypes: 4 workers, 1 queen with same data, 1 worker with same data but 19.ix.1982.
- Type-depositories: OMNH (holotype); OMNH, OUOJ (paratypes).
- Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
- combination in Bannapone: Eguchi, et al. 2015: 82;
- combination in Stigmatomma: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Imai, et al. 2003: 219; Xu & Chu, 2012: 1177 (in key); Eguchi, et al. 2015: 85 (in key); Hsu, F. et al. 2017: 91 (in key).
- Distribution: Japan.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Type Material

Eguchi et al. (2015) - Holotype: worker, Japan: Kanagawa: Cape Manazuru, 13/xii/1981, K. Masuko leg., Type No. OMNH TI 102, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, not examined. Paratypes: 1 female and 4 workers, same data as the holotype, not examined; 1 worker, Japan: Kanagawa: Cape Manazuru, 19/ix/1982, K. Masuko leg., not examined.

References

Eguchi, K., Bui, T.V., Yamane, S., and Terayama, M. 2015. Redefinition of the genus Bannapone and description of B. cryptica sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae). Zootaxa. 4013:77–86 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.5).
Hsu, F.-C., Esteves, F.A., Chou, L.-S., Lin, C.-C. 2017. A new species of Stigmatomma from Taiwan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae). ZooKeys 705: 81–94 (DOI 10.3897/zookeys.705.10296).
Onoyama, K. 1999. A new and a newly recorded species of the ant genus Amblyopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Japan. Entomol. Sci. 2: 157-161 (page 158, figs. 1-9 worker, queen described)
Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology, 41, 683–693 (doi:10.1111/syen.12186).
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

Onoyama K. 1999. A new and a newly recorded species of the ant genus Amblyopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Japan. Entomological Science 2:157-161.
Yamane S., Y. Harada, and K. Eguchi. 2013. Classification and ecology of ants. Natural history of ants in Southern Kyushu. 200 pages