Pachycondyla crassinoda (lat.) - a species of ants (Formicidae) of the genus Pachycondyla from the subfamily Ponerinae ( Ponerini ). Distributed in the tropics and subtropics of the New World .
| Pachycondyla crassinoda |
Ant Pachycondyla crassinoda |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Subtype : | Tracheo-breathing |
| Infraclass : | Winged insects |
| Treasure : | Fully Transformed Insects |
| View: | Pachycondyla crassinoda |
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| International scientific name |
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Pachycondyla crassinoda ( Latreille , 1802) |
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according to the catalog of Bolton [1] : - Formica crassinoda Latreille , 1802
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South America : Bolivia , Brazil , Venezuela , Guyana , Colombia , Paraguay , Peru , French Guiana and Ecuador. [2]
Large ants (females and workers about 2 cm long) are black (males are smaller, up to 15 mm). The petiol is tall and thick, its front and back surfaces are subparallel to each other (in the side view the petiol is almost rectangular). The whole body is covered with long (up to 1 mm) spaced hairs and small punctures [2] .
Anthills under rotten trunks or in damaged trees. Winged females are recorded in May ( Ecuador ), July ( Venezuela and Peru ), and fell into traps in October (Venezuela) and December (Ecuador). One family was found in the Eciton rapax nest ( Eciton ). Predators on termites of the genera Cornitermes , Labiotermes , Syntermes . Among ants parasites, humpback flies of the species Kapala cuprea (on pupae; data of Myers, 1931) [3] [4] [5] , as well as entomopathogenic fungi of the species Ophiocordyceps australis (Sanjuan et al., 2015) [6], are known.
The diploid set of chromosomes is 2n = 62 [7] .
The species was first described in 1802 by the French entomologist Pierre Andre Latreille under the original name Formica crassinoda Latreille , 1802 based on materials from French Guiana. Since 1858 it was included in the genus Pachycondyla : Brown, in Bolton, 1995 [1] [8] . Included in the complex of species Pachycondyla crassinoda species complex. It is similar to such species as Neoponera procidua , P. harpax , P. striata , P. impressa, and P. lenis [2] .
- ↑ 1 2 Bolton B. A new general catalog of the ants of the world. - Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1995. - 1-504 p. (p. 303, where it is considered as part of the genus Pachycondyla )
- ↑ 1 2 3 Mackay WP, and EE Mackay. The Systematics and Biology of the New World Ants of the Genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). - Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010 .-- S. 282-287 ( Pachycondyla crassinoda ). - 648 p. - ISBN 0-7734-1305-7 . , ISBN 978-0-7734-1305-4
- ↑ Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud, John M. Heraty, Andrew Carmichael and Jean-Paul Lachaud. Biology and Behavior of Kapala (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) Attacking Ectatomma , Gnamptogenys , and Pachycondyla (Formicidae: Ectatomminae and Ponerinae) in Chiapas, Mexico // Annals of the Entomological Society of America : Journal. - USA: Entomological Society of America , 2006. - Vol. 99 , no. 3 . - P. 567-576 .
- ↑ John Heraty. Catalog of the species of Eucharitidae (English) . Hymenopteran Systematics Research at UCR . University of California, Riverside. Date of treatment March 10, 2012. Archived May 19, 2012.
- ↑ Kapala Cameron, 1884 . Universal Chacidoiod Database. Date of treatment March 10, 2012. Archived May 16, 2012.
- ↑ Sanjuan, TI, AE Franco-Molano, RM Kepler, JW Spatafora, J. Tabima, AM Vasco-Palacios, and S. Restrepo. Five new species of entomopathogenic fungi from the Amazon and evolution of neotropical Ophiocordyceps (Eng.) // Fungal Biology: Journal. - 2015. - Vol. 119. - P. 901-916. doi: 10.1016 / j.funbio.2015.06.01.010.
- ↑ Lorite P. & Palomeque T. Karyotype evolution in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with a review of the known ant chromosome numbers. - Myrmecologische Nachrichten (Wien). - 2010. Volume 13, Pages 89-102. (Retrieved January 20, 2013)
- ↑ 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 .
- Mackay WP, and EE Mackay. The Systematics and Biology of the New World Ants of the Genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). - Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010 .-- S. 282-287. - 648 p. - 642 + xii p. - ISBN 0-7734-1305-7 . , ISBN 978-0-7734-1305-4
