Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 8 valid subspecies
Oecodoma diversa Jerdon, 1851 PDF: 109 (s.w.) INDIA (Kerala). Indomalaya. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Type-locality: India: Wynaad (= Kerala, Wayanad) “not uncommon” (
T.C. Jerdon). Type-depository: unknown (no type-material known to exist).
AntCat AntWiki Taxonomic history
[Duplicated in
Jerdon, 1854a PDF: 51. Genus misspelled as
Ocodoma in both publications.]
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a PDF: 174;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 30;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 440;
Smith, 1871a PDF: 331;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 73;
Emery, 1893g PDF: 208 (redescription);
Emery, 1893h PDF: 243;
Emery, 1895m: 466;
Emery, 1901i PDF: 567;
Forel, 1903a PDF: 691;
Rothney, 1903: 98;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 162;
Emery, 1904b PDF: 606;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 372;
Forel, 1906b PDF: 90;
Forel, 1907d PDF: 17;
Forel, 1907h PDF: 17;
Forel, 1909b PDF: 55;
Wheeler, 1909d PDF: 334, 340;
Forel, 1910d PDF: 123;
Forel, 1912e PDF: 105;
Forel, 1913g PDF: 191;
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 337;
Viehmeyer, 1916a PDF: 136;
Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 85;
Wheeler, 1922: 880;
Wheeler, 1923c PDF: 1;
Santschi, 1924c PDF: 100;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 212;
Stitz, 1925c PDF: 119;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 86 (in key);
Wheeler, 1927b PDF: 45;
Wheeler, 1927d PDF: 6;
Wheeler, 1927h PDF: 90;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 387;
Wheeler, 1929g PDF: 7;
Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 44;
Mukerjee, 1930 PDF: 154;
Wheeler, 1930k PDF: 68;
Kutter, 1932 PDF: 207;
Santschi, 1937h PDF: 371;
Teranishi, 1940: 58;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 159;
Collingwood, 1962c PDF: 225;
Baltazar, 1966 PDF: 257;
Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 118;
Moffett, 1984 PDF: 7;
Morisita et al., 1992: 43;
Bolton, 1995b: 333;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 72;
Tang et al., 1995: 76;
Zhou & Zheng, 1997b PDF: 163 (in key);
Tiwari, 1999 PDF: 60;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 90;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 131;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 65;
Ghosh et al., 2005 PDF: 31;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005 PDF: 36;
Zhou et al., 2006 PDF: 870 (in key);
Terayama, 2009 PDF: 156;
Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 50;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 51;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 34;
Jaitrong et al., 2016 PDF: 34;
Akbar & Bharti, 2017 PDF: 36 (in key);
Dias et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF: 64;
Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF: 81.
Senior synonym of
Carebara ocellifera:
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 73;
Emery, 1893g PDF: 206;
Emery, 1895m: 466;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 162;
Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 170;
Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 85;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 212;
Bolton, 1995b: 333;
Tiwari, 1999 PDF: 60;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 90.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Guinea Asia: Bangladesh,
Borneo,
Cambodia,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Laos,
Malaysia,
Myanmar,
Philippines,
Singapore,
Sri Lanka,
Thailand,
Vietnam Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya Native to (according to species list records)
: Australasia, Indomalaya bioregions
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 2 times found in Young rain forest, 2 times found in second growth bamboo rainforest, 1 times found in forest edge, 1 times found in limestone rain forest, 1 times found in mixed forest.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 3 times ground forager(s), 1 times foragers in parking lot, 1 times file of foraging ants moving insects and earthworm.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 2 times Pitfall, 2 times Random coll. Winkler sifting, 1 times m2 Winkler sifting.
Elevations: collected from 20 - 1067 meters, 482 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1919-08-01 00:00:00.0 and 2013-06-12 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Holotype of Pheidole megacephala punctulata: casent0901418; Holotype of Pheidole ocellifera: casent0900734; Not Provided: casent0714821, casent0714822, casent0714823; syntype of Myrmica polita: casent0901424; syntype of Pheidole militaris: casent0901414, casent0901415; syntype of Pheidole pabulator: casent0901416, casent0901417; syntype of Pheidologeton diversus fictus: casent0908883, casent0908884
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