Stigmatomma minutum

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 Specimen labels

Photo Gallery

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  Stigmatomma minutum worker from Kerala, India. Photo by Kalesh Sadasivan.
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  Stigmatomma minutum workers feeding on geophilomorph centipedes. Kerala, India. Photo by Kalesh Sadasivan.
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  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

• Key to Asian Stigmatomma

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

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

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.

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Specimen code casent0172802. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MCZ, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Paratype of Stigmatomma minuta. Worker. Specimen code casent0104570. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by ZMHB, Berlin, Germany.

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).

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)
• Forel, A. 1913l. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Her (page 4, worker described)
• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63: 273-391 (page 279, Combination in Stigmatomma (Fulakora))
• Sahanashree, R., Aswaj, P., Aniruddha, M., Priyadarsanan, D.R. 2023. Two new reports of Stigmatomma Roger, 1859 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae) species from the Indian Subcontinent. Sociobiology 70(4): e9315 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9315).
• 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
• Dad J. M., S. A. Akbar, H. Bharti, and A. A. Wachkoo. 2019. Community structure and ant species diversity across select sites ofWestern Ghats, India. Acta Ecologica Sinica 39: 219–228.
• Forel A. 1913k. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148.