Rhytidoponera kurandensis

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Rhytidoponera kurandensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Rhytidoponera
Species: R. kurandensis
Binomial name
Rhytidoponera kurandensis
Brown, 1958

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -15.83° to -17.68°.

 
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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Worker. Specimen code jtlc000008676. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by QMBA.

Nomenclature

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

  • kurandensis. Rhytidoponera kurandensis Brown, 1958g: 267 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 18 paratype workers.
    • Type-locality: holotype Australia: N Queensland, Kuranda, nr Cairns (W.L. Brown); paratypes: 14 workers “from six or more nest series from Kuranda and immediate vicity”, 19.x.1915 (W.M. Wheeler), 29-30.x.1950 (W.L. Brown), 1.xi.1950 (W.L. Brown), 4 workers Queensland, Cairns dist. (F.P. Dodd).
    • Type-depositories: MCZC (holotype); ANIC, MCZC, USNM (paratypes).
    • Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 44; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 379.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Brown W. L., Jr. 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362.
  • CSIRO Collection