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Temnothorax fultonii
| Temnothorax fultonii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Temnothorax |
| Species: | T. fultonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Temnothorax fultonii (Forel, 1902)
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 32.812778° to 32.48611°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (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. |
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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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- fultonii. Leptothorax fultonii Forel, 1902c: 229 (w.) INDIA. Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. See also: Bingham, 1903: 216.
Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from (Bingham 1903)
Worker
Chestnut-brown, the head slightly darker than the thorax, the abdomen dark brown; head, thorax and abdomen shining, head with a few rather widely-parted longitudinal striae; thorax punctured and a little rugose, more so towards and on the metathorax, pedicel with the nodes subopaque: abdomen highly polished, smooth and shining; pilosity pale, very sparse and scattered. Head widely oval, as broad in front as posteriorly, the sides convex; mandibles slightly shining, minutely punctured and pruinose; clypeus convex, its posterior margin slightly arched; antennae moderately long, the scape extending to the top of the head; eyes placed a little below the middle of the sides of the head. Thorax elongate, narrow; seen in profile the pro- mesonotum convex, the metauotiun above level, a wide shallow emargination between the two, the meso-metanotal suture distinct, the metanotal spines reduced to two small teeth; legs rather long and slender. Pedicel: the 1st node somewhat cuneiform, sloping gradually in front to almost the base of its short anterior petiole; 2nd node rounded, a little broader than long and broader than the 1st node; abdomen somewhat massive, broadly oval.
Length: 2.5-3.5 mm
References
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 216, see also)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 271, Combination in Temnothorax)
- Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249 (page 229, worker described)
- Wei, Y., Wu, T., Zhong, Z., Huang, Y., Nie, G. 2024. A new bicolor species of the ant genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Yunnan, China. Journal of the Entomological Research Society 26(3), 419-428 (doi:10.51963/jers.v26i3.2681).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bharti H., Y. P. Sharma, M. Bharti, and M. Pfeiffer. 2013. Ant species richness, endemicity and functional groups, along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas. Asian Myrmecology 5: 79-101.
- Forel A. 1902. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249.
- Forel A. 1903. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14: 679-715.
- Forel A. 1906. Les fourmis de l'Himalaya. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 42: 79-94.