Myrmecia fulviculis

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Myrmecia fulviculis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Tribe: Myrmeciini
Genus: Myrmecia
Species group: mandibularis
Species: M. fulviculis
Binomial name
Myrmecia fulviculis
Forel, 1913

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Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

An early record from Tasmania is apparently an error and the species is only known from mainland Australia (Clark, 1943: 144).

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.91666985° to -42.15°.

     
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Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • fulviculis. Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia) fulvipes r. fulviculis Forel, 1913g: 174 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Tasmania).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Australia: Tasmania (A.M. Lea).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • [Note: type-locality corrected to New South Wales by Clark, 1943: 144.]
    • Clark, 1951: 163 (q.m.).
    • Combination in M. (Promyrmecia): Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 70;
    • combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 144;
    • combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 10.
    • Subspecies of fulvipes: Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 70 (redescription).
    • Status as species: Clark, 1943: 144 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 162 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 10; Taylor, 1987a: 43; Ogata, 1991a: 359; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1638 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 271.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Forel A. 1913. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 49: 173-195
  • Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.