Temnothorax fultonii

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  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 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.