Echinopla fisheri (lat.) - a species of ants of the genus Echinopla from the subfamily Formicina (Formicinae, Camponotini ). They are found in Southeast Asia (eastern Malaysia , Sabah ) [1] .
| Echinopla fisheri |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Subtype : | Tracheo-breathing |
| Infraclass : | Winged insects |
| Treasure : | Fully Transformed Insects |
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| International scientific name |
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Echinopla fisheri Zettel & Laciny, 2015 |
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The medium-sized ants are black (middle and hind coxae and all hips are reddish). The length of the workers is 6.3 mm. The length of the head of workers is 1.57 mm. The length of the scape of the antennae is 1.53 mm. It features a long dark pubescence of the body, a wide head, a deep methanotic suture, and a polypore structure of the body surface, similar to pores of coral. The head is sub-trapezoid, rounded abdomen. The integument is dense, with small punctures. The posterior thorax is round without propodeal teeth, however, the petiol carries several spines from above. Antennae in females and workers are 12-segmented (in males, antennae consist of 13 segments). Stinging workers with 5 teeth. The mandibular palps are 6-segmented, the lower labial palps are composed of 4 segments. Shins of middle and hind legs with one apical spur. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one segment ( petiol ). The species was first described in 2015 by Austrian worldmecologists Herbert Zettel and Alice Laciny (Zoological Department, Natural History Museum, Vienna , Austria ) and named after the American worldmecologist Brian L. Fisher , California Academy of Sciences, USA ) a series of [1] [2] [3] .