Onychomyrmex glauerti

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Onychomyrmex glauerti
Onychomyrmex glauerti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Tribe: Amblyoponini
Genus: Onychomyrmex
Species: O. glauerti
Binomial name
Onychomyrmex glauerti
(Clark, 1928)

Stigmatomma glauerti side view

Stigmatomma glauerti top view

Specimen labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Heterick (2009) - Described from the northern wheatbelt near Geraldton. Additional material in the ANIC comes from Bejoording and Pickering Brook in the Perth region and Mt. Ragged in the south-east. These are all old collection records.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -28.88332939° to -33.45000076°.

 
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

Amblyopone glauerti casent0172203 head 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172203 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172203 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172203 label 1.jpg
Paratype of Onychomyrmex glauertiWorker. Specimen code casent0172203. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.
Amblyopone glauerti casent0172206 head 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172206 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172206 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172206 dorsal 2.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172206 label 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code casent0172206. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Queen

Images from AntWeb

Amblyopone glauerti casent0172204 head 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172204 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172204 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172204 dorsal 2.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172204 label 1.jpg
Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172204. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Male

Images from AntWeb

Amblyopone glauerti casent0172205 head 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172205 profile 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172205 dorsal 1.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172205 dorsal 2.jpgAmblyopone glauerti casent0172205 label 1.jpg
Male (alate). Specimen code casent0172205. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia.

Nomenclature

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

  • glauerti. Lithomyrmex glauerti Clark, 1928a: 31, pl. 1, figs. 1-11 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
    • Type-material: 4 syntype workers, 1 syntype ergatoid queen, 1 male.
    • Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Irwin River, viii.1926 (L. Glauert).
    • Type-depository: WAMP.
    • Combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 168;
    • combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
    • combination in Onychomyrmex: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
    • Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Heterick, 2009: 131.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

References