Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)
Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a PDF: 163;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 396;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 66;
Emery, 1893e PDF: 82;
Emery, 1893h PDF: 243, 256;
Emery, 1893i PDF: 263;
Forel, 1895b PDF: 125;
Mayr, 1897 PDF: 427;
Emery, 1901h PDF: 117;
Emery, 1901i PDF: 567;
Forel, 1903a PDF: 687;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 209;
Forel, 1903f PDF: 404;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 373;
Wheeler, 1905c PDF: 123;
Forel, 1907d PDF: 19;
Wheeler, 1908a PDF: 126;
Emery, 1908j PDF: 671;
Santschi, 1908 PDF: 517;
Forel, 1909k PDF: 394;
Wheeler, 1909d PDF: 334, 339;
Forel, 1910b PDF: 29;
Yano, 1910a PDF: 419;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 562;
Wheeler, 1911a PDF: 22;
Forel, 1911f PDF: 380;
Forel, 1911c PDF: 221;
Forel, 1912a PDF: 55;
Forel, 1912e PDF: 105;
Forel, 1912h PDF: 3;
Wheeler, 1912a PDF: 45;
Forel, 1913g PDF: 191;
Forel, 1913l PDF: 53;
Wheeler, 1913e PDF: 240;
Forel, 1915b PDF: 73;
Donisthorpe, 1915f: 336;
Arnold, 1916 PDF: 235;
Santschi, 1921b PDF: 424;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 180;
Wheeler, 1922: 874;
Wheeler, 1923d PDF: 4;
Essig, 1926 PDF: 858;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 86 (in key);
Wheeler, 1927d PDF: 5;
Wheeler, 1927g PDF: 108;
Borgmeier, 1927c PDF: 99;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 387;
Wheeler, 1928c PDF: 19;
Menozzi, 1929b PDF: 4;
Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 61;
Wheeler, 1930b PDF: 100;
Wheeler, 1930k PDF: 67;
Menozzi & Russo, 1930 PDF: 158;
Aguayo, 1932 PDF: 217;
Kutter, 1932 PDF: 207;
Mukerjee, 1934 PDF: 7;
Wheeler, 1934i: 13;
Donisthorpe, 1935 PDF: 633;
Wheeler, 1935g: 25;
Wheeler, 1936g PDF: 10;
Smith, 1937 PDF: 833;
Finzi, 1939a PDF: 164;
Teranishi, 1940: 57;
Eidmann, 1942a PDF: 248;
Kusnezov, 1949a PDF: 425;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 224;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 811;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 166;
Wellenius, 1955 PDF: 8;
Wilson, 1962c PDF: 16;
Wilson, 1964b PDF: 7;
Baltazar, 1966 PDF: 259;
Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 88;
Smith, 1967a PDF: 357;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b PDF: 64;
Taylor, 1967b PDF: 1094;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 143;
Alayo, 1974 PDF: 14 (in key);
Taylor, 1976a: 86;
Báez & Ortega, 1978: 190;
Smith, 1979: 1382;
Barquín, 1981: 204;
Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 270;
Bolton, 1987 PDF: 324 (redescription);
Taylor, 1987a PDF: 40;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 96;
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 357;
Ogata, 1991b PDF: 107;
Wu & Wang, 1992c PDF: 1307;
Morisita et al., 1992: 39;
Dlussky, 1994a: 54;
Bolton, 1995b: 261;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 89;
Dorow, 1996a PDF: 78;
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 346;
Collingwood et al., 1997 PDF: 508;
Tiwari, 1999 PDF: 57;
Deyrup et al., 2000: 297;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 45;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 134;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 66;
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003 PDF: 417;
Collingwood et al., 2004 PDF: 484;
Ghosh et al., 2005 PDF: 26;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005 PDF: 27;
Heterick, 2006 PDF: 96 (redescription);
Wetterer, 2006 PDF: 415;
Fernández, 2007b: 134;
Clouse, 2007b PDF: 247;
Framenau & Thomas, 2008 PDF: 68;
Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 155;
Heterick, 2009 PDF: 164;
Terayama, 2009 PDF: 153;
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 43;
Wetterer, 2009c PDF: 97;
Mohanraj et al., 2010 PDF: 6;
Collingwood et al., 2011 PDF: 433;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 45;
Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 87;
Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 212;
Sarnat et al., 2013 PDF: 71;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 118;
Ramage, 2014 PDF: 164;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 47;
Jaitrong et al., 2016 PDF: 40;
Wetterer et al., 2016 PDF: 21;
Sharaf et al., 2016a 10.5852/ejt.2016.246 PDF: 16 (redescription);
Sharaf et al., 2017 10.1080/00222933.2016.1271157 PDF: 47;
Deyrup, 2017: 72;
Dekoninck et al., 2019 PDF: 1159;
Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 828;
Lubertazzi, 2019 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF: 196.
Senior synonym of
Trichomyrmex basalis:
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 66;
Forel, 1894b PDF: 86;
Forel, 1895b PDF: 125;
Forel, 1903a PDF: 687;
Wheeler, 1908a PDF: 126;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 180;
Wheeler, 1922: 874;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 224;
Smith, 1979: 1382;
Bolton, 1987 PDF: 324;
Bolton, 1995b: 261;
Tiwari, 1999 PDF: 57;
Heterick, 2006 PDF: 96.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Cabo Verde,
Comoros,
Eritrea,
Ghana,
Madagascar,
Mayotte,
Mozambique,
Reunion,
Senegal,
Seychelles,
Sudan,
Tanzania,
Uganda Americas: Cayman Islands,
Dominican Republic,
Ecuador,
Galapagos Islands,
Guadeloupe,
Haiti,
Jamaica,
Mexico,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
United States Asia: India,
Indonesia,
Iran,
Israel,
Malaysia,
Nepal,
Philippines,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Singapore,
Sri Lanka,
Thailand,
United Arab Emirates,
Yemen Europe: Spain Oceania: Australia,
Fiji,
Hawaii,
Palau,
Papua New Guinea Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy,
Nearctic,
Neotropical,
Oceania,
Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical bioregion
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 77 times found in urban/garden, 10 times found in coastal scrub, 11 times found in dry forest, 10 times found in urban garden, 9 times found in tropical dry forest on tsingy, 6 times found in coastal scrub, mangrove, 5 times found in pioneer secondary vegetation, 6 times found in savannah shrubland, 3 times found in open secondary vegetation, 3 times found in native littoral and secondary vegetation, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 53 times ground forager(s), 40 times on low vegetation, 15 times ex dead twig above ground, 9 times under stone, 11 times ground nest, 3 times on tree trunk, 1 times nest in dead stick on live tree, 4 times under tree bark, live tree, 3 times sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood), 2 times recruiting to bait, 2 times ex rotten log, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 7 times hand collected|aspirator, 5 times light trap (UV15W + Ac15W), 3 times hand collecting, 4 times beating, 4 times Baiting, 25 index card, 10m, 4 times beating low vegetation, 5 times Hand, 2 times search, 3 times hand collection, 2 times sweeping, 1 times Malaise trap, 2 Malaise trap, ...
Elevations: collected from 5 - 2415 meters, 134 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1906-03-01 and 2019-07-12
Type specimens: Lectotype of Atta destructor: casent0008623; type of Myrmica ominosa: focol1713, focol1714, focol1715, focol1716
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia
