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Thaumatomyrmex zeteki
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Thaumatomyrmex |
| Species: | T. zeteki |
| Binomial name | |
| Thaumatomyrmex zeteki Smith, M.R., 1944
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Identification
Kempf (1975) - M. R. Smith, in the original description, compares zeteki with Thaumatomyrmex cochlearis on account of the scarcely rounded and subangulate propodeal profile. But the closest species are in the ferox-group, where it has already been differentiated from Thaumatomyrmex paludis. It differs from the remaining species in the same group by much smaller size, stouter antennae, short mandibles, scarcely broadened head, greater frontal width, shorter antennal scapes with segments II-VI of funiculi strikingly transverse, and relatively longer hind femora, the length of which is subequal to head width.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 10.36805556° to -10.883333°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Colombia, Panama (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.
- zeteki. Thaumatomyrmex zeteki Smith, M.R. 1944b: 98 (w.) PANAMA (Barro Colorado I.).
- Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
- Type-locality: Panama: Canal Zone, Barro Colorado I., vii.-viii.1942, Zetek 4975, Lot No. 42-11986 (J. Zetek); paratype with same data.
- Type-depository: USNM.
- Junior synonym of atrox: Longino, 1988: 38; Brandão, 1991: 382; Bolton, 1995b: 420.
- Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 250; Kempf, 1975b: 116 (redescription); Mackay, Mackay, et al. 2008: 212; Jahyny, et al. 2008: 335 (in key); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 548.
- Distribution: Panama, Colombia.
Description
Worker
Kempf (1975): paratype - TL 3.3 mm; HL 0.69 (0.76) mm; HW 0.65 (0.76) mm; CI 94 (100) ; ML 0.60 (0.72) mm; MI 87 (94); IfW 0.44 (0.51); IfI 67 (68); SL 0.52 (0.60) mm; SI 75 (78); WL 1.05 (1.15) mm; PnW 0.45 (0.52) mm; HfL 0.63 (0.72); HfI 96 (95-100); PW 0.57 (0.64) mm. Black; mandibles, frontal lobes, antennae, legs except coxae, and tip of gaster light yellowish brown to ferruginous. Closest to Thaumatomyrmex paludis, exhibiting the following significant differences:
Mandibles with a minute but distinct basal denticle, the second spine longer than one half the length of the apical spine; distance between anteriormost point of genae respectively of the mandibular acetabulum) and anterior orbit of eye nearly as long as the maximum diameter of the latter which shows about 8-9 facets in a row across the eyes that are decidedly smaller than in paludis; antennal scape and funiculus stouter (Figs. 16, 37), the funicular segments II-VI strikingly transverse; antennal socket punctate-rugulose but not surrounded by semicircular rugae; metanotal groove and suture present, separating in profile the mesonotum from the propodeum, the latter, likewise seen in profile, not continuously and evenly rounded, but nearly forming a blunt angle at their point of junction, yet not quite as marked as in cochlearis; inferior portion of lateral border of declivous face of propodeum with a distinct and sharp carinule, the lowermost seta of the pair flanking both sides arising from the top of this carinule; propodeal spiracle placed higher up on sides of thorax, somewhat prominent on a low but distinctly raised cone, quite visible in dorsal view; fore femora with a row of oblique hairs on flexor face, a unique feature in the genus; anterior and dorsal surface of tergum I of gaster forming a subacute angle when seen in profile; values for interfrontal, scape and hind femur indices lower than in paludis, under which further differences are cited.
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Type Material
Kempf (1975) - PANAMA, Canal. Zone: Barro Colorado Island, July-August 1942, James Zetek leg. 2 females (holotype and paratype, Coll. Zetek no. 4975, Lot No. 42-11986, USNM type no. 56483); paratype worker examined.
References
- Esteves, F.A., Fisher, B.L. 2021. Corrieopone nouragues gen. nov., sp. nov., a new Ponerinae from French Guiana (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1074, 83–173 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1074.75551).
- Kempf, W. W. 1975b. A revision of the Neotropical ponerine ant genus Thaumatomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Stud. Entomol. 18: 95-126 (page 116, see also)
- Longino, J. T. 1988. Notes on the taxonomy of the neotropical ant genus Thaumatomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 35-42 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. (page 38, Junior synonym of atrox)
- Smith, M. R. 1944b. Ants of the genus Thaumatomyrmex Mayr with the description of a new Panamanian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 46: 97-99 (page 98, worker described)
- Troya, A., Marcineiro, F., Lattke, J.E. & Longino, J. 2022. Igaponera curiosa, a new ponerine genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Amazon. European Journal of Taxonomy 823: 82–101 (doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.823.1817).
- Wetterer, J.K. 2021. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of St. Vincent, West Indies. Sociobiology 68, e6725 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v68i2.6725).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Basset Y., L. Cizek, P. Cuenoud, R. K. Didham, F. Guilhaumon, O. Missa, V. Novotny, F. Odegaards, T. Roslin, J. Schmidl et al. 2012. Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest. Science 338(6113): 1481-1484.
- Fernández F. 2008. Subfamilia Ponerinae s.str. Pp. 123-218 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
- Fernández F., and T. M. Arias-Penna. 2008. Las hormigas cazadoras en la región Neotropical. Pp. 3-39 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
- Kempf W. W. 1975. A revision of the Neotropical ponerine ant genus Thaumatomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 18: 95-126.
- Levings S. C. 1983. Seasonal, annual, and among-site variation in the ground ant community of a deciduous tropical forest: some causes of patchy species distributions. Ecological Monographs 53(4): 435-455.
- Smith M. R. 1944. Ants of the genus Thaumatomyrmex Mayr with the description of a new Panamanian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 46: 97-99.