Rhytidoponera spoliata
Rhytidoponera spoliata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
Tribe: | Ectatommini |
Genus: | Rhytidoponera |
Species: | R. spoliata |
Binomial name | |
Rhytidoponera spoliata (Emery, 1895) |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -15.48333333° to -19.01134381°.
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. |
Biology
Castes
Worker
Images from AntWeb
Syntype of Rhytidoponera spoliata. Worker. Specimen code casent0903815. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy. |
Male
Images from AntWeb
Male (alate). Specimen code casent0281296. 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.
- spoliata. Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) spoliatum Emery, 1895g: 348 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Mt Bellenden Ker (Podenzana).
- Type-depositories: ANIC, MSNG.
- Combination in Rhytidoponera: Emery, 1911d: 38.
- Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 38; Clark, 1936: 36 (redescription); Brown, 1958g: 204, 279; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 48; Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 381.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) spoliatum Emery, 1895: Syntype, 1 worker, Mt. Bellenden Ker, Queensland, Australia, <collector unknown>, ANIC32-011955, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) spoliatum Emery, 1895: Syntype, 1 worker, Kamerunga, Queensland, Australia, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa.
- Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) spoliatum Emery, 1895: Syntype, 1 worker, Mt. Bellenden Ker, Queensland, Australia, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa.
- Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) spoliatum Emery, 1895: Syntype, 1 worker, Queensland, Australia, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 279, see also)
- Emery, C. 1895h. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 39: 345-358 (page 348, worker described)
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 38, Combination in Rhytidoponera)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bluthgen N., G. Gebauer, and K. Fiedler. 2003. Disentangling a rainforest food web using stable isotopes: dietary diversity in a species-rich ant community. Oecologia 137: 426-435.