7
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Taxonomic revision of Madagascan species of the Pheidole fervens species-group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

      research-article
      * ,
      PLoS ONE
      Public Library of Science

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Madagascar, one of the top megadiversity regions, hosts one of the highest numbers of endemic and threatened organisms on earth. One of the most spectacular examples of ant radiation on the island has occurred in the hyperdiverse genus Pheidole. To this date, there are 117 described Madagascan Pheidole divided into 16 species-groups, and 97% of them are endemic to the island. Only two of these species-groups contain widely distributed invasive species in addition to native, endemic taxa: megacephala, and fervens species-groups. Here we revise the fervens species-group and discuss updated distribution records of its introduced members on Madagascar. We recognize six species belonging to this group, including five new to science: Pheidole ampangabe sp. nov., P. arivo sp. nov., P. comosa sp. nov., P. indica Mayr, P. mamirapiratra sp. nov., and P. mena sp. nov. Detailed descriptions are supplemented with measurements, diagnoses, identification key, high-resolution images for major and minor worker, and comments on distribution and biology.

          Related collections

          Most cited references34

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: not found

          Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities.

          Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding. This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost? One way is to identify 'biodiversity hotspots' where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat. As many as 44% of all species of vascular plants and 35% of all species in four vertebrate groups are confined to 25 hotspots comprising only 1.4% of the land surface of the Earth. This opens the way for a 'silver bullet' strategy on the part of conservation planners, focusing on these hotspots in proportion to their share of the world's species at risk.
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions

            M Shea (2002)
              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              tmap: Thematic Maps in R

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS One
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                6 January 2021
                2021
                : 16
                : 1
                : e0244195
                Affiliations
                [001]Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America
                Nanjing Agricultural University, CHINA
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: SS was supported by California Academy of Sciences’ Schlinger Postdoctoral Fellowship. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

                [¤]

                Current address: Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-2309
                Article
                PONE-D-20-27899
                10.1371/journal.pone.0244195
                7787378
                33406099
                1254441c-d056-4127-a228-ffae17a9533c
                © 2021 Salata, Fisher

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 4 September 2020
                : 4 December 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 11, Tables: 0, Pages: 26
                Funding
                Funded by: U.S. National Science Foundation
                Award ID: DEB-1655076
                Award Recipient :
                This work was supported by multiple grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation since 1992. The most recent support is DEB-1655076 (Project MAMI). SS was supported by CAS Schlinger Postdoctoral Fellowship.
                Categories
                Research Article
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Anatomy
                Digestive System
                Teeth
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Anatomy
                Digestive System
                Teeth
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Anatomy
                Head
                Jaw
                Teeth
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Anatomy
                Head
                Jaw
                Teeth
                Social Sciences
                Sociology
                Social Systems
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Anatomy
                Head
                Eyes
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Anatomy
                Head
                Eyes
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Anatomy
                Ocular System
                Eyes
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Anatomy
                Ocular System
                Eyes
                People and Places
                Geographical Locations
                Africa
                Madagascar
                Earth Sciences
                Geomorphology
                Topography
                Landforms
                Islands
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Anatomy
                Brain
                Cerebral Cortex
                Occipital Lobe
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Anatomy
                Brain
                Cerebral Cortex
                Occipital Lobe
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Ecology
                Ecosystems
                Forests
                Rainforests
                Ecology and Environmental Sciences
                Ecology
                Ecosystems
                Forests
                Rainforests
                Ecology and Environmental Sciences
                Terrestrial Environments
                Forests
                Rainforests
                Ecology and Environmental Sciences
                Species Colonization
                Invasive Species
                Custom metadata
                All raw data used in this study is available in two Supporting Information files. Additionally, images of specimens and data of all pinned specimens examined in the present contribution are available online on AntWeb ( www.AntWeb.org) and accessible using the unique CASENT identifying specimen code.

                Uncategorized
                Uncategorized

                Comments

                Comment on this article