NEW FEATURE: Biogeographic region

[Mark Wilden]

You can specify the biogeographic region for species-group taxa in AntCat. These regions are:

Nearctic

Neotropic

Palearctic

Afrotropic

Malagasy

Indomalaya

Australasia

Oceania

You can search for one of those regions in Advanced Search in combination with other parameters, or alone.

This field is currently blank for all taxa. At the end of this message is a report showing each distinct value given by Barry Bolton in the locality field. If you give me some guidance, I can run a batch job to assign biogeographic regions to taxa based on the Bolton locality. I can certainly guess what most of them should be.

You can also search for the "None" biogeographic region, which lets you see which taxa still need this field supplied. For example, if you were charged with setting this field for Brian Fisher's taxa, you'd enter "Fisher, B. L." for the author and "None" for the biogeographic region. That would return all Brian's taxa that still don't have a biogeographic region.

What values should be provided for taxa from China or Mexico? Are they accounted for in the list above?

Distinct values of "locality"

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"Africa" 2

"AFRICA" (no locality) 1

"America aequinoctiali" 1

"America meridionali" 11

"AMERIQUE" 1

"Barbary" 1

"Côte atlantique du Sahara" 1

"East Indies" 1

"Equatorial Africa" 1

"GRAND INDES" 2

"GRAND-INDES" 2

"Grandes Indes" 1

"Grandes-Indes" 2

"GUINEA" (in error; in text Forel states "probablement du Brésil") 2

"L'habitation est inconnue. Je soupçonne qu'elle est d'Afrique." 2

"Neu-Hannover" 1

"Nini" 1

"North Africa" 1

"ohne Vaterlandsangabe" 3

"Pays de Mois" (S.E. Asia) 1

"Pays des Moîs" 2

"Pemnes" (Chile ?) 1

"Port Praslin" 2

"probablement d'Australie ou de Nouvelle Guinée" 1

"probably Brazil" 2

"Rio Paraguay" 1

"Sahara" 1

"Santo Domingo" 2

"South America ?" (in error; type-locality INDIA, see Bingham, 1903: 21) 2

"South America" (locality incorrect) 2

"South America"; locality in error 1

"Südamerika" 2

"Triton Bay" 2

"Tropical Africa" 2

"Tropical East Africa" 1

"TROPICAL WEST AFRICA" 1

"West Africa" 3

Afghanistan 24

Africa (not New Guinea as stated; see: Wilson, 1964a: 443) 1

Albania 4

Aldabra 2

Algeria 288

Algeria (?) 2

Andaman Is 1

Andorra 2

Angola 158

Annobon 1

Antigua 1

Antilles 83

Antilles Is 3

Argentina 665

Argentina (Eocene) 2

Argentina (ichnospecies) 1

Armenia 26

Asia (no locality given) 1

Australia 2143

Australia (Cocos Is) 3

Australia (Lower Cretaceous) 1

Australia (name misspelled as <i>aerolus</i> in publication) 1

Australia (name misspelled as <i>aerolus</i> in this publication) 1

Australia (not Sierra Leone; see Bolton, 1973b: 352; Kohout, 1988c: 432) 1

Australia (Phillip I.) 1

Australia (Tasmania) 13

Austria 46

Austria ? 2

Austria (Pliocene) 2

Azerbaijan 5

Azores Is 1

Bahamas 35

Balearic Is 1

Baltic Amber 5

Baltic Amber (Eocene) 170

BALTIC AMBER (Kaliningrad, Russia) 1

Barbados 8

Basses Alpes 1

Belarus 2

Belgium 8

Belize 7

Benin 16

Bermuda 2

Bhutan 16

Bitterfeld Amber 2

Bitterfeld Amber (Eocene) 7

Bolivia 186

Bolivia (diagnosis in key) 1

Borneo 535

Borneo (Pulo Laut) 1

Borneo (Sabah) 1

Botswana 26

Botswana (Cretaceous) 5

Brazil 1891

Brazil (Cretaceous) 1

Brazil (intercepted in quarantine in Germany) 2

Brazil (not India) 1

Brazil (Oligocene) 1

Brazil (originally misspelled as <i>mesorotalis</i>) 2

British Virgin Is 1

Brunei 4

Bulgaria 16

Burkina Faso 1

Burmese Amber (Cretaceous) 6

Burundi 12

Cambodia 14

Cameroun 268

Canada 47

Canada (Cretaceous) 4

Canada (Eocene) 9

Canada (Miocene) 4

CANADIAN AMBER (Cretaceous) 2

Cape Verde Is 2

Carolina Is 1

Caucasus 40

Caucasus (Miocene) 2

Central African Republic 13

Central America 28

Chad 9

Chile 99

China 473

China (Eocene amber) 4

China (Eocene) 28

China (Hong Kong) 16

China (Miocene) 49

China (Miocene) (Ichneumonidae) 1

China (name misspelled as <i>noggii</i>) 1

China/Kashmir? 1

Christmas 6

Colombia 457

Comoro Is 11

COMOROS 3

Congo 110

Costa Rica 546

Crete 2

Croatia 11

Croatia (Miocene) 68

Cuba 261

Cyprus 12

Czech Republic (Miocene) 1

Czechia 4

Czechoslovakia 24

Czechoslovakia (Miocene) 2

Czechoslovakia (Tertiary) 2

Daghestan 1

Danish Amber 1

Democratic Republic Of Congo 583

Democratic Republic Of Congo (in key) 2

Denmark 5

Denmark (Paleocene-Eocene) 2

Djibouti 1

Dominian Amber 2

Dominica 5

Dominican Amber 13

Dominican Amber (Miocene) 87

Dominican Republic 32

Dominican Republic (in copal) 2

East Africa 4

East Africa (no locality given, probably KENYA) 2

East Malaysia 1

Easter 2

Ecuador 128

Ecuador (Galapagos Is.) 1

Ecuador (Galapagos Is) 43

Ee 1

Egypt 86

Egypt ? 1

Egypt? 1

El Salvador 6

Equatorial Guinea 19

Equatorial Guinea (Annobon I.) 2

Equatorial Guinea (Bioko I.) 17

Ethiopia 164

Europe 20

Europe (not U.S.A.; see Baroni Urbani, 1977d: 91) 2

Europe (see Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 35 (note) 1

Fiji 1

Fiji Is 141

Finland 33

France 232

France ? 2

France (Corsica) 20

France (Cretaceous) 1

France (Mio-pliocene) 4

France (Miocene) 4

France (Oligocene) 32

French Amber (Cretaceous) 2

French Guiana 101

French Polynesia (Marquesas Is) 4

French Polynesia (Mururoa I.) 1

French Polynesia (Society Is) 2

French Polynesia (Tahiti) 2

Gabon 94

Gambia 6

Georgia 21

Georgia, Armenia 1

Germany 86

Germany (Eocene) 29

Germany (intercepted in quarantine, from Brazil) 1

Germany (intercepted in quarantine, from Mexico) 1

Germany (intercepted in quarantine, from West Indies) 1

Germany (Late Pliocene) 2

Germany (Miocene?) 2

Germany (Miocene) 3

Germany (Oligocene) 28

Germany (Saxonian amber, Eocene) 1

Germany (Tertiary) 2

Ghana 149

Gibraltar 3

Great Britain 44

Great Britain (Eocene) 5

Great Britain (Oligocene) 15

Greece 101

Greece (Crete) 5

Grenada 5

Guadeloupe 1

Guadelupe 2

Guam 4

Guatemala 152

Guinea 125

Guyana 187

Haiti 87

Hawaii 26

Himalaya (India?) 1

Honduras 82

Hungary 13

India 711

India (Andaman Is) 7

India (Nicobar Is) 17

India (not Australia) 1

Indonesia 22

Indonesia ("Indes orientales") 8

Indonesia (Ambon I.) 34

Indonesia (Anak Krakatau I.) 1

Indonesia (Aru I.) 95

Indonesia (Bali I.) 1

Indonesia (Bali) 1

Indonesia (Banggai Archipelago) 1

Indonesia (Bangka I.) 1

Indonesia (Batjan I.) 69

Indonesia (Berhala I.) 2

Indonesia (Bintang I.) 1

Indonesia (Bouru I.) 2

Indonesia (Buru I.) 6

Indonesia (Engano I.) 3

Indonesia (Flores I.) 2

Indonesia (Goram I.) 4

Indonesia (Halmahera I.) 14

Indonesia (Irian Jaya) 1

Indonesia (Java) 283

Indonesia (Kai Besar) 1

Indonesia (Key I.) 3

Indonesia (Krakatau I.) 3

Indonesia (Lingga I.) 1

Indonesia (Lombok I.) 6

Indonesia (Matabello I.) 4

Indonesia (Mentawei I.) 21

Indonesia (Misool I.) 16

Indonesia (Moluccas) 1

Indonesia (Morotai I.) 10

Indonesia (Nias I.) 2

Indonesia (Prince I.) 1

Indonesia (Prinsen I.) 7

Indonesia (Salawaty I.) 2

Indonesia (Salwatty I.) 2

Indonesia (Sebesi I.) 5

Indonesia (Seram I.) 29

Indonesia (Simalur I.) 1

Indonesia (Sulawesi) 193

Indonesia (Sulawesi) (in copal) 12

Indonesia (Sumatra) 342

Indonesia (Sumatra) (locality in error) 1

Indonesia (Sumatra) (name misspelled as <i>myrmecordia</i>) 2

Indonesia (Sumba I.) 3

Indonesia (Sumbawa I.) 1

Indonesia (Tanimbar Is) 1

Indonesia (Ternate I.) 12

Indonesia (Timor I.) 6

Indonesia (Timor) 2

Indonesia (Verlaten I.) 1

Indonesia (Waigeo I.) 1

Indonesia (Wammer I.) 4

Indonesia (Weeim I.) 2

Iran 22

Iraq 17

Ireland 1

Israel 71

Israel? 1

Italy 158

Italy (Sardinia) 15

Italy (Sicily) 32

Ivory Coast 79

Jamaica 44

Japan 279

Japan (Miocene) 1

Jj 1

Jordan 6

Karakorum 1

Kashmir 1

Kazakhstan 179

Kazan 2

Kenya 202

Kerguelen 1

Korea 23

Kuwait 4

Kyrgyzstan 41

Laos 16

Latvia 2

Lebanon 25

Lebanon (caption to fig. 22 is misspelled <i>adonis</i>) 1

Lesotho 17

Liberia 15

Libya 20

Luxembourg 6

Madagascar 636

Madagascar (Farquhar I.) 2

Madagascar (genitive ending modified as species is named for a woman, Dawn Mack) 1

Madagascar (Johanna I.) 2

Madeira 2

Malawi 16

Malaysia 7

Malaysia (Sarawak) 2

Malta 5

Marianas Is 1

Marshall Is 1

Martinique 4

Mauritius 28

Mauritius (former Ile de France) 1

Mauritius (Rodrigues I.) 3

MAYOTTE 3

Mexican Amber 7

Mexico 581

Mexico (fig. only) 2

Mi (w.) 2

Micronesia (Caroline Is) 3

Micronesia (Pohnpei I.) 4

Micronesia (Ponape I.) 1

Micronesia (Yap I.) 2

Moldova 1

Mongolia 18

Morocco 183

Moroccos 1

Mozambique 97

Muscat 1

Myanmar 178

Myanmar (Cretaceous) 1

Namibia 76

Nepal 24

Netherlands 6

Netherlands (possible origin in Jamaica) 1

Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao I.) 2

New Caledonia 109

New Caledonia (Loyalty Is) 1

New Guinea 909

New Guinea (Bismarck Archipelago) 50

New Guinea (New Britain I.) 4

New Guinea (New Britain) 3

New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) 1

New Zealand 39

Nicaragua 32

Nicobar Is 3

Niger 8

Nigeria 59

Nn (m.) 1

no locality 3

no locality given 40

no type-locality given (type-locality AUSTRALIA: Shattuck, 2008c: 4) 1

North Africa 7

North America 1

North Korea 6

North Ossetia 1

Norway 3

Norway (Miocene) 2

Oise Amber (Eocene) 1

Oman 19

Oo 2

Pakistan 12

Palau 1

Palau (Peleliu I.) 1

Palau Is 7

Palau Is (Peleliu I.) 1

Panama 276

Papua New Guinea 4

Paraguay 158

Peru 219

Philippines 238

Philippines (Bukidnon) 1

Philippines (Camiguin I.) 3

Philippines (Cebu I.) 4

Philippines (Leyte I.) 3

Philippines (Leyte) 1

Philippines (Luzon I.) 6

Philippines (Luzon) 7

Philippines (Mindanao I.) 1

Philippines (Mindanao) 4

Philippines (Negros I.) 2

Philippines (Palawan I.) 6

Philippines (Palawan) 2

Poland 14

Portugal 14

Portugal (Cape Verde Is) 1

Portugal (Madeira I.) 9

Principe 1

Puerto Rico 39

Rapa 1

Republic Of Korea 1

Reunion 7

Rodriguez 2

Romania 4

Rovno & Scandinavian Ambers (Eocene) 2

Rovno Amber 2

Rovno Amber (Eocene) 6

ROVNO AMBER (Ukraine) 1

Russia 255

Russia (Cretaceous) 21

Russia (diagnosis in key) 1

Russia (Kunashir I.) 2

Russia (Middle Miocene) 1

Russia (Miocene) 9

Russia (North Caucasus) 1

Russia (Palaeocene?) 2

Russia (Palaeocene) 1

Russia (Paleocene) 4

Russia & Kazakhstan 1

Rwanda 19

Samoa 35

Santo Domingo 2

São Tomé & Principe 1

São Tomé & Príncipe (Príncipe I.) 7

São Tomé & Príncipe (São Tomé I.) 11

Saudi Arabia 49

Scandinavian Amber 1

Senegal 48

Seychelles Is 25

Sicilian Amber 3

Sicilian Amber (Miocene) 4

Sicilian Amber (Oligocene) 10

Sierra Leone 43

Singapore 126

Singapore (not South Africa as originally stated; see Donisthorpe, 1943f: 677) 2

Solomon Is 138

Somalia 52

South Africa 679

South Africa (locality in error) 1

South Africa (name misspelled as <i>Syllopsis</i> in publication) 2

South Africa (not Albania) 1

South Africa (not Cuba as stated; see Mayr, 1893: 195) 2

South Africa (not Cuba; see Mayr, 1893: 195) 1

South America 30

South America (no locality given) 4

South East Asia ("pays de Moïs") 1

South Korea 2

Spain 130

Spain (Balearic Is.) 1

Spain (Balearic Is) 2

Spain (Canary Is) 61

Sri Lanka 283

St Helena 2

Sudan 131

Surinam 86

Swaziland 2

Sweden 16

Switzerland 73

Switzerland (in greenhouse) 1

Switzerland (locality in error, see Bolton, 1987: 277) 2

Switzerland (Miocene) 41

Syria 42

Syria (in subgenus <i>Tanaemyrmex</i>) 1

Tahiti 2

Tahitian Is 2

Taiwan 190

Tajikistan 13

Tanzania 127

Tasmania 9

Thailand 83

Tibet 24

Togo 8

Tonga 5

Tonga Is 1

Transcaspia 10

Transcaucasia 5

Transcaucasus 2

Trinidad 102

Truk 1

Tunisia 226

Turkey 87

Turkmenia 25

Turkmenistan 8

Tuvalu 1

U.S.A. 1282

U.S.A. (Cretaceous) 5

U.S.A. (Eocene) 26

U.S.A. (locality in error; type-locality possibly Colombia: Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 199) 2

U.S.A. (Middle Eocene) 1

U.S.A. (Miocene) 3

U.S.A. (Oligocene) 39

U.S.A.? 2

Uganda 62

Ukraine 52

Ukraine (Rovno Amber) 11

United Arab Emirates 4

United States 1

Uruguay 25

Uzbekistan 18

Vanuatu 11

Vavao (íles des Amis) [Tonga] 2

Venezuela 137

Vietnam 128

Virgin Is 3

West Africa 2

West Indies 9

West Malaysia 176

Yemen 42

Yugoslavia 17

Yugoslavia (Miocene) 2

Zambia 10

Zimbabwe 313

[Mark Wilden]

I'll just put out a reminder that if someone could assign biogeographic regions to most of the areas lists, then I can write the code to apply the translation to the actual data.

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[Flávia Esteves]

Almost done Mark.

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