Rhytidoponera reticulata

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Rhytidoponera reticulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Rhytidoponera
Species: R. reticulata
Binomial name
Rhytidoponera reticulata
(Forel, 1893)

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Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -10.94999981° to -18.71666667°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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

Worker

Images from AntWeb

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Syntype of Rhytidoponera reticulataWorker. Specimen code casent0900523. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.
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Syntype of Rhytidoponera reticulataWorker. Specimen code casent0907161. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0281286. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.

Nomenclature

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

  • reticulata. Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) reticulatum Forel, 1893d: 459 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Australia: Northern Territory, Port Darwin (J.J. Walker).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Crawley, 1921: 88 (m.).
    • Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911d: 39.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 39; Emery, 1912a: 78 (in key); Crawley, 1918: 88; Crawley, 1921: 88; Clark, 1936: 74 (redescription); Brown, 1958g: 204, 278; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 47; Taylor, 1987a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

  • Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) reticulatum Forel, 1893: Holotype, worker, Darwin (as Port Darwin), Northern Territory, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
  • Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) reticulatum Forel, 1893: Paratype, 1 worker, Darwin (as Port Darwin), Northern Territory, Australia, The Natural History Museum.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Andersen A. N. 1993. Ant communities in the Gulf Region of Australia's semi-arid tropics: species composition, patterns of organisation, and biogeography. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 399-414.
  • Andersen A. N., J. C. Z. Woinarski, and B. Hoffman. 2004. Biogeography of the ant fauna of the Tiwi Islands, in northern Australia's moonsoonal tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 97-110.
  • Andersen A. N., and A. D. Patel. 1994. Meat ants as dominant members of Australian ant communities: an experimental test of their influence on the foraging success and forager abundance of other species. Oecologia 98: 15-24.
  • Andersen A. N., and B. D. Hoffmann. 2010. Conservation value of low fire frequency in tropical savannas: ants in monsoonal northern Australia. Austral Ecology 36(5): 597-503.
  • Andersen, Alan N., John C.Z. Woinarski and Ben D. Hoffman. 2004. Biogeography of the ant fauna of the Tiwi Islands, in northern Australia's monsoonal tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 97-110.
  • Woinarski J.C.Z., H. Reichel, and A.N. Andersen. 1998. The distribution of ants on the Wessel and English Company islands, in the seasonal tropics of Australia's Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 557-578.