Ponera coarctata
Ponera coarctata (Latreille, 1802) Figs. 18,19. Formica coarctata Latreille, 1802:65. Worker. Light to dark brown with sparse pubescence but numerous body hairs especially on the gaster. Head more closely punctured than alitrunk; mandibles with four strong teeth towards apex and smaller indistinct d...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.6283719 2023-05-15T16:11:43+02:00 Ponera coarctata Collingwood, C. A. 1979 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283719 https://zenodo.org/record/6283719 unknown Zenodo http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD3B0D337E1DDAA0E4761CC6B14CB110 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD3B0D337E1DDAA0E4761CC6B14CB110 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283718 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit Open Access Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC0 Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Formicidae Ponera Ponera coarctata Formica Formica coarctata article-journal ScholarlyArticle Taxonomic treatment Text 1979 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283719 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283718 2022-04-01T12:39:03Z Ponera coarctata (Latreille, 1802) Figs. 18,19. Formica coarctata Latreille, 1802:65. Worker. Light to dark brown with sparse pubescence but numerous body hairs especially on the gaster. Head more closely punctured than alitrunk; mandibles with four strong teeth towards apex and smaller indistinct denticulae posteriorly. Eyes are minute and often indistinct. Ocelli absent. Length: 3.0-3.5 mm. Queen. Similar to worker but larger with easily visible eyes and ocelli. Length: 4.0-4.5 mm. Male. Shining black, alate; pygidium terminating in a downcurved spine; scape shorter than second funiculus segment. Alitrunk high with arched scutellum and projecting post-scutellum. Length: 3.4-3.8 mm. Distribution. Not recorded from Denmark or Fennoscandia. Present locally in South England and Wales and in the Channel Isles. - Range: throughout Central and South Europe from Portugal to the Caucasus and from North Africa to the Netherlands. Biology. This is an inconspicuous species of slow movement, mainly carnivorous, living in small nests with two or three queens and 12 to 35 workers. Nests are found under stones or moss in broken stony ground, banks or crumbling cliffs and among flints in open woodland. Alates occur during August and September and have been caught by sweeping hedgerows in late summer. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 32 Text Fennoscandia DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Ponera coarctata (Latreille, 1802) Figs. 18,19. Formica coarctata Latreille, 1802:65. Worker. Light to dark brown with sparse pubescence but numerous body hairs especially on the gaster. Head more closely punctured than alitrunk; mandibles with four strong teeth towards apex and smaller indistinct denticulae posteriorly. Eyes are minute and often indistinct. Ocelli absent. Length: 3.0-3.5 mm. Queen. Similar to worker but larger with easily visible eyes and ocelli. Length: 4.0-4.5 mm. Male. Shining black, alate; pygidium terminating in a downcurved spine; scape shorter than second funiculus segment. Alitrunk high with arched scutellum and projecting post-scutellum. Length: 3.4-3.8 mm. Distribution. Not recorded from Denmark or Fennoscandia. Present locally in South England and Wales and in the Channel Isles. - Range: throughout Central and South Europe from Portugal to the Caucasus and from North Africa to the Netherlands. Biology. This is an inconspicuous species of slow movement, mainly carnivorous, living in small nests with two or three queens and 12 to 35 workers. Nests are found under stones or moss in broken stony ground, banks or crumbling cliffs and among flints in open woodland. Alates occur during August and September and have been caught by sweeping hedgerows in late summer. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 32 |
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