Vollenhovia lucimandibula

Vollenhovia lucimandibula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Vollenhovia
Species:	V. lucimandibula
Binomial name
Vollenhovia lucimandibula Wang, W., Zhou & Huang, 2005

Identification

Similar to Vollenhovia emeryi, but differs form the latter by the following characters : body blackish brown , dorsum of postpetiole with coarse and dense punctures , mandibles smooth and shiny without punctures. The new species can also be distinguished easily from other known relative species of the East Asia by the characterstics mentioned above.

Distribution

Hubei Province , China.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: China (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.

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.

• lucimandibula. Vollenhovia lucimandibula Wang, W., Zhou & Huang, 2005: 835, figs. 1, 2 (w.q.m.) CHINA.

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

Type Material

Holotype: worker, 1600m Mulinzi Nature Reserve, Hefeng County, Hubei Province, 26 Aug. 2004, Wang Wei leg. Paratypes: 12 workers, 2 females and 2 males, collected from the same nest of the holotype. Deposited in the Insect Collection , Hubei Institute for Nationalities , China.

References

• Wang, W., Zhou, S.-Y. & Huang, J.-H. 2005. A new species of the genus Vollenhovia Mayr and a new record species of the genus Myrmica Latreille from China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 30, 835-838.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Fontanilla A. M., A. Nakamura, Z. Xu, M. Cao, R. L. Kitching, Y. Tang, and C. J. Burwell. 2019. Taxonomic and functional ant diversity along tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational transects in southwest China. Insects 10, 128; doi:10.3390/insects10050128
• Wang W., Zhou S. Y., and J. H. Huang. 2005. A new species of the genus Vollenhovia Mayr and a new record species of the genus Myrmica Latreille from China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Chinese with English summary] Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 30(4): 835-838.