Stigmatomma normandi

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Stigmatomma normandi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Tribe: Amblyoponini
Genus: Stigmatomma
Species: S. normandi
Binomial name
Stigmatomma normandi
Santschi, 1915

Amblyopone normandi casent0102474 profile 1.jpg

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 36.182222° to 35.825556°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Israel, Tunisia (type locality).

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 normandi casent0104571 head 1.jpgAmblyopone normandi casent0104571 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone normandi casent0104571 profile 2.jpgAmblyopone normandi casent0104571 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone normandi casent0104571 label 1.jpg
Type of Stigmatomma normandiWorker. Specimen code casent0104571. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ZMHB, Berlin, Germany.

Nomenclature

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

  • normandi. Stigmatomma normandi Santschi, 1915a: 54, fig. 1 (w.) TUNISIA.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-localities: Tunisia: Le Kef (Normand), Tunisia: Sousse (Normand).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 169;
    • combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19.
    • Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168; Baroni Urbani, 1978a: 45 (redescription); Kugler, J. 1988: 256; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 38; Borowiec, L. 2014: 162.
    • Distribution: Isrel, Tunisia.

Description

References

  • Baroni Urbani, C. 1978a. Contributo alla conoscenza del genere Amblyopone Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 51: 39-51 (page 45, see also)
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 62, catalogue)
  • Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • 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 169, Combination in Amblyopone)
  • Santschi, F. 1915a. Nouvelles fourmis d'Algérie, Tunisie et Syrie. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 6: 54-63 (page 54, fig. 1 worker 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

  • Baroni Urbani C. 1978. Contributo alla conoscenza del genere Amblyopone Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 51: 39-51.
  • Baroni Urbani, C. "Contributo alla conoscenza del genere Amblyopone Erichson." Mitteilungen der Schweirzerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 51(1) (1978): 39-51.
  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
  • Santschi, F. "Nouvelles fourmis d'Algérie, Tunisie et Syrie." Bulletin de la Société d' Histoire naturelle de l' Afrique du Nord 6 (1915): 54-63.
  • Vonshak M., and A. Ionescu-Hirsch. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39: 33-55.