Opisthopsis major

Opisthopsis major
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Opisthopsis
Species:	O. major
Binomial name
Opisthopsis major Forel, 1902 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -10.55° to -21.43333054°.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Opisthopsis major. Worker. Specimen code casent0909944. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

• major. Opisthopsis major Forel, 1902h: 492 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA. See also: Wheeler, W.M. 1918d: 358.

Type Material

• Syntype, 3 workers, Mackay, Queensland, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), Mackay, Queensland, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.

References

• Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 405-548 (page 492, worker, queen described)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918d. The ants of the genus Opisthopsis Emery. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62: 341-362 (page 358, see also)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• 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, 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.
• CSIRO Collection
• Dakir. 2009. The species composition and diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in mangrove vegetation, in Kolaka, South East Sulawesi and Muara Angke, Jakarta. Thesis of the Graduate School of Agronomic Institute of Bogor. 77 pages.
• Wheeler W. M. 1918. The ants of the genus Opisthopsis Emery. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62: 341-362.