Stigmatomma pertinax

Stigmatomma pertinax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Stigmatomma
Species:	S. pertinax
Binomial name
Stigmatomma pertinax (Baroni Urbani, 1978) Specimen Labels

Identification

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  Hamer et al. (2023), Fig. 7. Mandibular and anterior head comparison between Stigmatomma pertinax holotype and S. draconis. A) Stigmatomma pertinax (CASENT0906831); B) Stigmatomma draconis (ANTWEB1010999).

Keys including this Species

• Key to Asian Stigmatomma
• Key to Asian Stigmatomma with 11 antennomeres
• Key to Bannapone species
• Key to the Stigmatomma of India

Distribution

Within India, Stigmatomma pertinax is found on the southern slope of the Himalayas and in the Eastern Himalayas (Bharti et al., 2016; Sahanashree et al., 2023).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Nepal.

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.

• pertinax. Amblyopone pertinax Baroni Urbani, 1978a: 48, figs. 13, 14 (w.) INDIA (West Bengal).
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: India: Darjeeling Dist., Chim Khona, nr Ghum, 2200 m., 28.v.1975 (W. Wittmer).
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • Combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
  • combination in Bannapone: Eguchi, et al. 2015: 84;
  • combination in Stigmatomma: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 62; Xu, 2001d: 552 (in key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2011: 590 (in key); Xu & Chu, 2012: 1177 (in key); Eguchi, et al. 2015: 85 (in key); Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 18; Hsu, F. et al. 2017: 91 (in key).
  • Distribution: India.

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

Type Material

Eguchi et al. (2015) - Holotype: worker, India: Dargeeling: Chim Khona near Ghum (2200 m alt.), 28/v/1975, W. Wittmer leg., Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, not examined (but images examined: CASENT0906831 at AntWeb).

References

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1978a. Contributo alla conoscenza del genere Amblyopone Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 51: 39-51. (page 48, figs. 13, 14 worker described)
• 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).
• Hamer, M.T., Pierce, M.P., Guénard, B. 2023. The Amblyoponinae (Formicidae) of Hong Kong. Asian Myrmecology 16, e016005 (doi:10.20362/am.016005).
• 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).
• 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).
• Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1006, 99–136 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808).
• 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).