Taxonomic history
Subspecies of Atopomyrmex mocquerysi: Forel, 1913b PDF: 336; Forel, 1915c PDF: 343; Wheeler, 1922: 886.Revived status as species: Emery, 1924f PDF: 240; Santschi, 1925h PDF: 163 (in key).Senior synonym of Atopomyrmex deplanatus: Emery, 1899d PDF: 477.Senior synonym of Atopomyrmex mocquerysi curvispina: Emery, 1912d PDF: 273; Emery, 1924f PDF: 240.Senior synonym of Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides melanoticus: Bolton, 1995b: 75.Yalanzou, quelques ouvrieres.
Thirteen specimens from Malela (J. Bequaert) are referable to this form, which, I believe with Forel, is to be regarded merely as a subspecies of mocquerysi and not as an independent species. It is easily distinguished by its more shining head, coarser thoracic sculpture, and longer, stouter and, in the large workers, basally more flattened epinotal spines. The small workers have the spines slender, more curved, and more backwardly directed, just as in the small individuals of the true mocquerysi .
The habits of cryptoceroides are evidently the same as those of the typical form, as it had been previously taken by Bequaert at Elisabethville in the Katanga "nesting in the rotten wood of a felled tree."
Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides Emery , 1891: 561, pl. 15, figs 5, 6. Holotype female, Ivory Coast: Assinie (C. Alluaud) (MCSN, Genoa) [examined].
Sides of head behind eyes smooth and shining between widely scattered pits, not blanketed by reticulate-punctate sculpture and never with rugulae in this area.
Propodeal dorsum strongly rugose, without or only with vestiges of punctate sculpture.
Pronotal dorsum closely and coarsely rugose, without dense punctate ground-sculpture.
Propodeal spines in dorsal view with their basal portions projecting outwards before angling backwards (Fig. 11), the projecting portion concealing the spiracle which is not at all visible from above.
Propodeal spiracle large and relatively close to the margin of the declivity below the spine; diameter of spiracle equal to or greater than the distance separating the spiracular hind margin from the edge of the declivity at its closest point (Fig. 9).
Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides Emery, 1892 è una formica della sottofamiglia Myrmicinae.[1]
Visione laterale
Visione dorsale
Testa
La specie è presente in vari stati africani (Camerun, Ghana, Guinea, Costa d'Avorio, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Sierra Leone e Zimbabwe).[2]
Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides Emery, 1892 è una formica della sottofamiglia Myrmicinae.
Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides is een mierensoort uit de onderfamilie van de Myrmicinae.[1][2] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1892 door Emery.
Bronnen, noten en/of referenties
Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides é uma espécie de inseto do gênero Atopomyrmex, pertencente à família Formicidae.[1]
Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides é uma espécie de inseto do gênero Atopomyrmex, pertencente à família Formicidae.
