Brachyponera lutea (lat.) - a species of ants ( Formicidae ) of the genus Brachyponera (formerly part of the genus Pachycondyla ) from the subfamily Ponerinae .
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Distribution
Australia [1] .
Description
Small ants are yellowish brown (total working body length TL about 5 mm, females about 1 cm), females up to brownish-black. The eyes are small in size, located in the anterolateral parts of the head. The mandibles are triangular elongated. Antenna scapus long, reaching occipital margin of head. The posterior thorax is round, without propodeal spines. Antennae 12-segmented. The mandibular palps are 4-segmented, the lower labial palps are composed of 4 segments. The stalk consists of one large segment ( petiol ). The sting is developed [1] [2] . The size differences between females and workers are the most significant among all representatives of the Ponerinae subfamily. This is due to the fact that young fertilized females are able to independently establish new colonies without the help of workers and do not go on foraging during the breeding of the first offspring (claustral method) [2] . They are found in the nests of termites in which they live and hunt for their owners [3] .
Associated with myrmecophilic ticks Messoracarus emarginatus ( Banks , 1916) ( Messoracaridae ) [4] [5] and German wasps of the genus Ponerotilla Brothers, 1994 ( Mutillidae ) [6] .
Systematics
The species was first described in 1862 by Austrian worldmecologist Gustav Mayr based on materials from Australia [7] . The species has a long and complex taxonomic history, since in different years B. lutea was included in various genera, first in Ponera (since 1862), then in Euponera (since 1901), Brachyponera (since 1971), Pachycondyla (since 1995), Brachyponera (since 2014) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Schmidt, CA; Shattuck, SO The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2014 .-- Vol. 3817 (1). - P. 1-242. - ISSN 1175-5326 .
- ↑ 1 2 Haskins, CP; Haskins, EF 1950. Note on the method of colony foundation of the ponerine ant Brachyponera (Euponera) lutea Mayr. Psyche (Cambridge) 57: 1-9.
- ↑ Higashi S. and F. Ito. (1989). Defense of Termitaria by Termitophilous Ants . Oecologia (Springer + International Association for Ecology). Vol. 80, No. 2 (1989), pp. 145-147.
- ↑ Banks N. 1916. Acarians from Australian and Tasmanian ants and ant-nests. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40 : 224-240 pls XXIII — XXX.
- ↑ Lindquist EE, Walter DE, Krantz GW 2009. Chapter twelve. Order Mesostigmata. pp. 124-232. In: Krantz GW, Walter DE (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Third edition. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock Texas . pp. 1-807. ISBN 978-0-89672-620-8 .
- ↑ Denis J. Brothers. (1994). A New Genus and Four New Species of Mutillidae Associated with Brachyponera lutea Mayr (Formicidae) in Western Australia (Hymenoptera) . Australian Journal of Entomology . Volume 33, Issue 2. May 1994. Pages 143-152. DOI: 10.1111 / j.1440-6055.1994.tb00941.x
- ↑ Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verh. KK. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 649-776 (page 721, description of workers and females).
Literature
- Heterick, BE 2009. A guide to the ants of South-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 76: 1–206.
Links
- Brachyponera lutea . youtube.com