Calyptomyrmex danum, Shattuck, Steven O., 2011

Shattuck, Steven O., 2011, Revision of the ant genus Calyptomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South-east Asia and Oceania, Zootaxa 2743, pp. 1-26 : 9-10

Calyptomyrmex danum sp. n.

( Figs 5 , 18 )

Types. Holotype worker and 10 worker and 1 queen paratype from Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia, M. Ellwood (holotype and 2 worker paratypes collected 17 November 1999, queen collected 19 October 1999 (BMNH), 8 worker paratypes collected 13 July 1999 (ANIC, BMNH)).

Diagnosis. Hairs on head and body spatulate (noticeably narrower near the body and expanded distally and with a rounded tip), gaster smooth to shallowly punctate, propodeum armed with short angular teeth and in dorsal view petiole only slightly broader than long and oval in shape. These characters will separate this species from all other known species except the Australian sparsus . It can be separated from this species in being smaller (HW <1.12 vs. HW> 1.12), having the head broader than long (CI> 104 vs. CI <98), with the spatulate hairs on the posterior section of head and mesonotum rising above the underlying body surface (they are closely appressed to the surface in sparsus ) and in having the propodeal spines shorter and broader (angle between faces greater than 90°) while they are larger and more strongly angled (angle between faces approximately 90°) in sparsus . Additionally, the sculpturing on the head and body are more weakly developed with the rugae relatively shallow compared to that found in sparsus .

Worker description. Mandibles indistinctly striate, more strongly basally, less so apically. Eyes with 6–7 ommatidia in greatest diameter. Propodeum in lateral view with short, broadly angular teeth. Propodeal lobes uniform in thickness. Node of petiole in profile slightly higher than and approximately the same thickness as the postpetiole. In dorsal view the petiolar node narrower than postpetiolar node. Head, promesonotum and petiolar and postpetiolar nodes irregularly rugose, the rugae enclosing foveolate spaces, the rugae less well developed on the postpetiole. Sides of mesosoma irregularly rugose, more strongly on pronotum, weakly so on propodeum. Spaces between rugulae indistinctly shagreened or finely reticulate-punctulate, matt and dull. Gaster finely and indistinctly sculptured, moderately shiny. Hairs on head and body spatulate and appressed. Clypeal fork hairs thickened, the medial hairs thinner and less spatulate than the lateral hairs. Colour dull red-brown.

Measurements. Worker (n = 4) - CFW 0.17–0.19; CI 106–108: HL 0.95–1.04; HW 1.02–1.10; ML 0.91–1.02; MTL 0.44–0.51; PetI 124–137; PetL 0.24–0.27; PetW 0.30–0.36; PronW 0.62–0.74; SI 51; SL 0.52–0.56.

Comments. This species has been collected several times at a single rainforest site in eastern Sabah.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Calyptomyrmex danum (holotype): A. Front of head; B. Side of body; C. Top of body; D. Distribution of material examined.

FIGURE 18. Head length versus head width for C. asper, C. beccarii, C. danum, C. fritillus, C. loweryi, C. ryderae, C. sparsus and C. taylori.