Myrmecia luteiforceps

Myrmecia luteiforceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	Myrmeciini
Genus:	Myrmecia
Species group:	mandibularis
Species:	M. luteiforceps
Binomial name
Myrmecia luteiforceps Wheeler, W.M., 1933 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Myrmecia Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -17.38333333° to -34.05°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• luteiforceps. Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) gilberti var. luteiforceps Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 74.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Herberton (E. Mjöberg).
  • Type-depositories: ANIC, MHNG, MRHN (possibly also in NHRS).
  • [First available use of Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia) fulvipes r. gilberti var. luteiforceps Forel, 1915b: 9 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland); unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Taylor, 1986: 34).]
  • Combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 143;
  • combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 12.
  • Status as species: Clark, 1943: 143 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 161 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 12; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 359; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1639 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 272.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

• Syntype, 2 workers, Herberton, Queensland, Australia, Mjoberg, ANIC32-015330, Australian National Insect Collection.

References

• Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 143, Combination in Promyrmecia)
• Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 143, Raised to species)
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.]
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 12, Combination in Myrmecia)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933i. Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp. (page 74, worker described)