Simopone

	Simopone
	; Simopone ant emeryi side view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
The kingdom :	Eumetazo
No rank :	Bilateral symmetric
No rank :	Primordial
No rank :	Shedding
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Trachealis
Above class :	Six-legged
Class:	Insects
Subclass :	Winged insects
Infraclass :	New insects
Hoard :	Insects with full transformation
Nadotryad :	Hymenopterida
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder :	Stem-spine
Infrastructure :	Stinging
Superfamily :	Formicoidea
Family:	Ants
Subfamily :	Cerapachyinae
Tribe :	Cerapachyini
Rod:	Simopone
International Scientific Name
	Simopone Forel , 1891

Simopone (lat.) Is a genus of ants ( Formicidae ) from the subfamily Cerapachyinae ( Cerapachyini ). Myrmekofagi . About 40 species.

Simopone marleyi head

Content

Description

Occur in the tropics of the Old World ( Africa , Madagascar , Southeast Asia ). Specialized in feeding other species of ants ( myrmecophagy ). Small narrow ants (5-7 mm). In the stalk 1 segment ( petiol ), but the first segment of the abdomen is sharply separated by constriction from the rest, resembling the form of the second segment of the stalk (postpetiol) of some other ants ( Myrmicinae ). The workers tendrils are 11-segmented and have ocells. Formula of palpi: 6.4 or 5.3 (the number of segments of the mandibular and mandibular palpi). The eyes are large (the ratio of the length of the eye to the width of the head, EL / HW = 0.30-0.53), the scapus is short (the ratio of the length of the scape to the width of the head, SI = 33-56). Mostly woody species (occasionally workers forage on the ground) ^[2] .

Simopone chapmani head
Simopone grandidieri on the side
Simopone marleyi on the side

Systematics

About 40 species, half of which were described in 2012. The genus was isolated in 1891 by the Swiss biologist Auguste Trout ^[2] .

Simopone amana Bolton & Fisher, 2012 ^[2]
Simopone annettae Kutter, 1976 ^[3]
Simopone bakeri Menozzi, 1926
Simopone brunnea Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone chapmani Taylor, 1966
Simopone conciliatrix Brown, 1975
Simopone conradti Emery , 1899
Simopone consimilis Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone dignita Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone dryas Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone dux Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone elegans Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone emeryi Forel, 1892
Simopone fera Bolton & Fisher, 2012

Simopone fulvinodis Santschi, 1923
Simopone grandidieri Forel, 1891 typus
Simopone grandis Santschi, 1923
Simopone gressitti Taylor, 1965
Simopone inculta Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone laevissima Arnold, 1954
Simopone latiscapa Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone marleyi Arnold, 1915
Simopone matthiasi Kutter, 1977
Simopone merita Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone miniflava Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone nonnihil Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone occulta Bolton & Fisher, 2012

Simopone oculata Radchenko, 1993
Simopone Bolton & Fisher persculpta , 2012
Simopone rabula Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone rex Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone satagia Bolton, 1995
Simopone schoutedeni Santschi, 1923
Simopone sicaria Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone silens Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone trita Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone vepres Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Simopone victrix Bolton & Fisher, 2012

Notes

↑ Forel, 1891: Hist. Madag., 20 (2), 139.
↑ ¹ ² ³ BOLTON Barry & Brian L. FISHER. Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant gene Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). (English) // Zootaxa . - 2012. - Vol. 3283 . - P. 1-100 .
↑ Kutter, H. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Simopone Forel (Eng.) // Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft. - 1976. - Vol. 49 . - P. 273–276 .

Literature

Bolton B. A new general catalog of the ants of the world. - Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, 1994.

Bolton B. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. - Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. - Gainesville , FL: American Entomological Institute, 2003. - T. 71. - 370 p. - ISBN 1-887988-15-7 .

Brown, WL, Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. 5. Ponerinae, Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agriculture 5. Entomology (Ithaca) 15: 1-115.

Links

Simopone (English) . Encyclopedia of Life. The appeal date is April 30, 2012. Archived May 25, 2012.

[Forel1891-1] Forel, 1891: Hist. Madag., 20 (2), 139.

[Bolton2012-2] ¹ ² ³ BOLTON Barry & Brian L. FISHER. Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant gene Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). (English) // Zootaxa . - 2012. - Vol. 3283 . - P. 1-100 .

[Kutter1976-3] Kutter, H. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Simopone Forel (Eng.) // Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft. - 1976. - Vol. 49 . - P. 273–276 .