A Preliminary Checklist of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Kakamega Forest (Kenya)
A Preliminary Checklist of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Kakamega Forest (Kenya)
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卡卡梅加森林蚂蚁（膜翅目：蚁科）初步清单（肯尼亚）
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2009
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J. Wägele
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Francisco Hita Garcia;G. Fischer;M. Peters;R. Snelling;J. Wägele
摘要肯尼亚西部卡卡梅加森林蚂蚁种类初步名录。该物种列表是基于1999年至2009年的样本，这些样本保存在德国波恩动物研究博物馆Koenig和美国洛杉矶县洛杉矶自然历史博物馆的蚂蚁收藏中。已知蚂蚁区系包括11亚科52属288种。该物种丰富度是非洲热带动物地理区域报告的第二高。所观察到的蚂蚁区系可分为一组森林栖息地物种，约有180种，另一组由约100种开放栖息地专家组成。大部分的蚂蚁区系（204种或71%）可以识别到物种水平，但其余的仍然无法识别或未描述（84种或29%）。从观察到的蚂蚁动物区系的初步数据似乎支持的假设，即卡卡梅加森林是前几内亚-刚果雨林带的最东部的残余，而东非非洲山地森林的动物地理学的影响似乎不太显着。
ABSTRACT A preliminary species checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya, is presented. The species list is based on specimens sampled from 1999 until 2009, which are deposited in the ant collection of the Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, United States. The known ant fauna comprises 11 subfamilies with 52 genera and 288 species. This species richness is the second highest reported from the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. The observed ant fauna can be divided into a group of forest habitat species with approximately 180 species and another group, which consists of about 100 species, of open habitat specialists. The greatest part of the ant fauna (204 species or 71%) could be identified to species level but the rest remains unidentifiable or undescribed (84 species or 29%). The preliminary data from the observed ant fauna seems to support the hypothesis that Kakamega Forest is the eastern-most remnant of the former Guineo-Congolian rain forest belt, while the zoogeographical influence from East African Afromontane forests seems to be less significant.