Stigmatomma minutum

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Stigmatomma minutum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Tribe: Amblyoponini
Genus: Stigmatomma
Species: S. minutum
Binomial name
Stigmatomma minutum
Forel, 1913

Amblyopone minuta casent0102516 profile 1.jpg

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Specimen labels

Photo Gallery

  • Stigmatomma minutum worker from Kerala, India. Photo by Kalesh Sadasivan.
  • Stigmatomma minutum workers feeding on geophilomorph centipedes. Kerala, India. Photo by Kalesh Sadasivan.
  • Stigmatomma minutum workers feeding on geophilomorph centipedes. The pale workers have recently emerged from pupal cocoons and their colour will darken over time. Kerala, India. Photo by Kalesh Sadasivan.

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Within India, Stigmatomma minutum has been reported exclusively from the Western Ghats (Bharti et al., 2016; Sahanashree et al., 2023).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality).
Oriental Region: India.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Amblyopone minuta casent0172802 head 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0172802 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0172802 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0172802 label 1.jpg
Specimen code casent0172802. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MCZ, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Amblyopone minuta casent0104570 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0104570 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0104570 label 1.jpg
Paratype of Stigmatomma minutaWorker. Specimen code casent0104570. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ZMHB, Berlin, Germany.
Amblyopone minuta casent0172803 head 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0172803 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0172803 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone minuta casent0172803 label 1.jpg
Specimen code casent0172803. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.

Nomenclature

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

  • minutum. Stigmatomma minuta Forel, 1913k: 4 (w.) INDONESIA (Sumatra).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Indonesia: Sumatra, Soengei Bamban, 9.iv.-14.vi.1912 (von Buttel-Reepen).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Combination in Stigmatomma (Fulakora): Mann, 1919: 279;
    • combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 168;
    • combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19.
    • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 24; Brown, 1960a: 168, 196; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Xu & Chu, 2012: 1183 (in key); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 18.
    • Distribution: India, Indonesia (Sumatra).

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics