Amblyopone longidens

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Amblyopone longidens
Amblyopone longidens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Tribe: Amblyoponini
Genus: Amblyopone
Species: A. longidens
Binomial name
Amblyopone longidens
Forel, 1910

Amblyopone longidens side view

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -28.31666667° to -39.03333333°.

   
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 casent0102521. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0104577. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by ZMHB, Berlin, Germany.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0102185. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Queen

Images from AntWeb

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Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172210. 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.

  • longidens. Amblyopone ferruginea var. longidens Forel, 1910b: 1 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bombala (Froggatt).
    • Type-depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
    • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1964b: 446 (l.).
    • Subspecies of ferruginea: Emery, 1911d: 26.
    • Junior synonym of ferruginea: Wheeler, W.M. 1927c: 20.
    • Status as species: Brown, 1952i: 266; Brown, 1960a: 168, 207; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
    • Distribution: Australia.


Syntype workers from Bombala, New South Wales (4 in Museum Victoria, Melbourne).

Type Material

  • Amblyopone ferruginea longidens Forel, 1910: Syntype, 4 workers, Bombala, New South Wales, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Andersen A. N. 1986. Diversity, seasonality and community organization of ants at adjacents heath and woodland sites in South-Eastern Asutralia. Australian Journal of Zoolology 34: 53-64.
  • Andersen A. N. 1986. Patterns of ant community organization in mesic southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 11: 87-97.
  • Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.