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Genus: Stigmatomma   Roger, 1859 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 52 species

Fossil: 2 species

Stigmatomma Roger, 1859 PDF: 250. Type-species: Stigmatomma denticulatum, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903 PDF: 36. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Stigmatomma in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 53 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1862 PDF: 714 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 16 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 14.
Stigmatomma in Amblyoponinae: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162; Forel, 1895b PDF: 110 [Amblyoponeridae].
Stigmatomma in Pachycondylinae, Amblyoponini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 283.
Stigmatomma in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 766; Emery, 1901b PDF: 34; Wheeler, 1910a: 134; Emery, 1911e PDF: 23; Forel, 1917 PDF: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 641.
Stigmatomma as subgenus of Amblyopone: Forel, 1900d PDF: 55; Clark, 1934b PDF: 27; Brown, 1949c PDF: 87.
Stigmatomma as genus: Roger, 1859 PDF: 250; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 14; Emery, 1895l PDF: 766; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 36; Emery, 1911e PDF: 23; Forel, 1917 PDF: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 641; Borgmeier, 1923: 52; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 728; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 31; Kusnezov, 1956a PDF: 12.
Stigmatomma as junior synonym of Amblyopone: Emery & Forel, 1879a: 455; Mayr, 1887 PDF: 546; Brown, 1960a: 155; all subsequent authors to the following.
Stigmatomma revived from synonymy: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012 PDF: 17.
Senior synonym of Arotropus: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012 PDF: 17; of Bannapone: Ward & Fisher, 2016 10.1111/syen.12186 PDF: 691.
Genus Stigmatomma references
For references pre-2012, see under Amblyopone. Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012 PDF: 17 (male diagnosis, synonymy); Xu & Chu, 2012 PDF: 1177 (Asia species key (as Amblyopone)); Bharti & Rilta, 2015 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.364 PDF: 506 (Indian species, key to species with eleven segmented antenna); Esteves & Fisher, 2016 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8032 PDF (Malagasy species revision, key)

Taxon Page Images:


Adult Stigmatomma cannot eat solid food and are incapable of the trophallaxis behavior that allows most other ant species to share food among nestmates. Instead, they have developed a novel way to feed themselves: consuming the hemolymph of nestmate larvae. Ants puncture vulnerable spots in the larval skin- as the ant in the center demonstrates- and lap up the drops of hemolymph. (Stigmatomma oregonensis) Quincy, California, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Stigmatomma sps hunting a centipede, from Kerala, Southern Western Ghats, India. Kalesh Sadasivan.kaleshs2002in@gmail.com      

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Bell's Dracula Ant Stigmatomma belli, Kerala.Western Ghats. India. kaleshs2002in@gmail.com


Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Ashanti, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Eastern, Eastern Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Lagunes, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sangha-Mbaéré, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, São Tomé, Tanzania, Western Africa
Australasia Region: Oceania, Papua New Guinea, West New Britain
Indomalaya Region: Aceh, Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Camarines Sur, Christmas Island, Cordillera, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Karnataka, Kedah, Kerala, Mae Hong Son, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Okinawa, Philippines, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Utara, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Uttarakhand, Vietnam, West Bengal, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, United States, Virginia, Washington
Neotropical Region: Americas, Mato Grosso do Sul
Oceania Region: Fiji, Hawaii, Melanesia, Serua
Palearctic Region: Albania, Andalusia, Antalya, Bulgaria, Campania, China, Crete, Croatia, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Faro, Gibraltar, Greece, Himachal Pradesh, Hyōgo, Ionía Nísia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jeju, Kaliningrad, Kyoto, Malta, Morocco, Muğla, Northern, Northern Africa, Notío Aigaío, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Southern Europe, Spain, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Veneto, Western Asia


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