Myrmecia nigrocincta
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| Myrmecia nigrocincta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmeciini |
| Genus: | Myrmecia |
| Species: | M. nigrocincta |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrmecia nigrocincta Smith, F., 1858
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| At a Glance | • Brachypterous Queen |
Contents
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -15.83333° to -38.21667099°.
| 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.
Elevation Range
| Species | Elevation (m asl) | |||||
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| 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1000 | 1200 | |
| Myrmecia nigrocincta | 20-30 | 30-40 | 30-40 | |||
| Shading indicates the bands of elevation where species was recorded. Numbers are the percentage of total samples containing this species. | ||||||
Biology
A colony excavated in 2007 near Raleigh NSW yielded one queen, 570 workers, 75 cocoons as well as larvae and eggs (C. Peeters unpublished data).
Castes
Queen is brachypterous, i.e. short, non-functional wings are present at adult emergence (Wheeler 1933 p. 49). This implies that she mates close to her natal colony, and dispersal distance is limited
Myrmecia nigrocincta queen and workers from a colony excavated near Coff's Harbour, NSW. Photo by Christian Peeters.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- nigrocincta. Myrmecia nigrocincta Smith, F. 1858b: 147 (w.) AUSTRALIA (no state data).
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Australia: (no further data), “56/43”.
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- Roger, 1861a: 36 (q.); Mayr, 1876: 95 (m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 251 (l.); Imai, Crozier & Taylor, 1977: 345 (k.).
- Status as species: Roger, 1861a: 35; Mayr, 1862: 724 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 23; Mayr, 1863: 430; Mayr, 1865: 84; Lowne, 1865b: 336; Mayr, 1876: 95; Dalla Torre, 1893: 21; Forel, 1910b: 8; Emery, 1911d: 20; Forel, 1915b: 5; Viehmeyer, 1924a: 222; Crawley, 1926: 381 (redescription); Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 48; Clark, 1951: 113 (redescription); Kugler, C. 1980b: 265; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 13; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 359; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1639 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 272; Liu, S., Richter, et al. 2019: 1 (anatomy).
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, worker(s), specific locality not given, Australia, The Natural History Museum.
Description
References
- Burwell, C.J., Nakamura, A. 2020. Rainforest ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) along an elevational gradient at Eungella in the Clarke Range, Central Queensland coast, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 125: 43-63.
- Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.]
- Crawley, W. C. 1926. A revision of some old types of Formicidae. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1925: 373-393 (page 381, see also)
- Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berl.) 59: 341-393 (page 345, karyotype described)
- Liu, S.-P., Richter, A., Stoessel, A., Beutel, R.G. 2019. The mesosomal anatomy of Myrmecia nigrocincta workers and evolutionary transformations in Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 77(1): 1-19 (DOI 10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-01).
- Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. J. Mus. Godeffroy 12: 56-115 (page 95, male described)
- Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Syst. Entomol. 16: 353-381 (page 359, see also)
- Palavalli-Nettimi, R., Ogawa, Y., Ryan, L.A., Hart, N.S., Narendra, A. 2019. Miniaturisation reduces contrast sensitivity and spatial resolving power in ants. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.203018 (doi:10.1242/jeb.203018).
- Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berl. Entomol. Z. 5: 1-54 (page 36, queen described)
- Smith, F. 1858b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. (page 147, worker described)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971d. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 47: 245-256 (page 251, larva described)
- Wheeler, G.C. 1933. Colony-founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Forel A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(16): 1-119
- Imai H. T., R. H. Crozier, and R. W. Taylor. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma 59: 341-393.
- Osunkoya O. O., C. Polo, and A. N. Andersen. 2011. Invasion impacts on biodiversity: response of ant communities to infestation by cat's claw creeper vine, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae) in subtropical Australia. Biol. Invasions 13: 2289-2302.
- Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.
