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Taxonomic history
Photos © Philip Herbst; Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape
Scientific Name | Status | Publication | Pages | ModsID | GoogleMaps |
Plectroctena mandibularis | Emery, C., 1895, Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3 e mémoire. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64, pp. 15-56: 5, (download) | 5 | 3788 | ||
Plectroctena mandibularis | Mayr, G., 1895, Afrikanische Formiciden., Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 10, pp. 124-154: 124, (download) | 124 | 4387 | ||
Plectroctena mandibularis | Santschi, F., 1914, Formicidae., Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911 - 1912). Résultats scientifiques. Hyménoptères 2, pp. 41-148: 54, (download) | 54 | 8111 | ||
Plectroctena mandibularis | Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum: 101-102, (download) | 101-102 | 8127 |
Found most commonly in these habitats: 24 times found in Grassland, 7 times found in dry forest, 5 times found in Savanna, 3 times found in miombo at base of inselberg, 2 times found in montane forest, 4 times found in Acacia nigrescens savanna, 3 times found in Woodland, 1 times found in shrubland, 3 times found in Forest, 3 times found in Mopane savanna, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 9 times ground forager(s), 5 times under stone, 2 times ex soil, 1 times under rotten log, 2 times pitfall trap, 1 times ex root mat, ground layer, 2 times Malaise trap, 1 times under stone; clay soils; c30 workers, 1 times sandy ground [path], 1 times grassy grove, 1 times yellow pan trap, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 41 times Pitfall trap, 7 times Hand collected, 6 times By Hand, 5 times Yellow Pan Trap, 4 times Turning over rocks, 2 times pitfall trap, PF 25 cup sample transect, 10m, 3 times Nest, 1 times Hand collected, under rock, 2 times Malaise trap, 4 Malaise traps, 2 times Pitfall trap, 5 days, 1 times pooter, ...
Elevations: collected from 10 - 2250 meters, 857 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1884-10-01 and 2017-03-17
Type specimens: Holotype of Plectroctena caffra major: casent0907335; syntype of Plectroctena mandibularis integra: casent0915290; syntype of Plectroctena minor conjugata: casent0915284, rmcaent000017734; syntype of Simopelta jeckylli: casent0902467; type of Plectroctena mandibularis var. striativentris: focol1014, focol1015