Amblyopone michaelseni

Amblyopone michaelseni
Amblyopone michaelseni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Amblyopone
Species:	A. michaelseni
Binomial name
Amblyopone michaelseni Forel, 1907 Specimen labels

Although the type specimen was taken at Jarrahdale, where Curtin University students and other researchers have done much work on ants, there are no specimens in the Curtin Ant Collection. Possibly this is a species that has been affected by alteration in land use around Perth. (Heterick 2009)

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Amblyopone of the southwestern Australian Botanical Province

Distribution

Heterick (2009) - Collected in Western Australia and Victoria, but is apparently very rare in WA.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -32.71667° to -37.41666667°.

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

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0102195. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Queen

Images from AntWeb

Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172209. 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.

• michaelseni. Amblyopone michaelseni Forel, 1907h: 263 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Jarrahdale, Stat. 129 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer).
  • Type-depository: unknown.
  • [Note: holotype was originally in Hamburg Museum, and was probably destroyed in World War II (Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20).]
  • Clark, 1928a: 33 (q.).
  • Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 26; Wheeler, W.M. 1927c: 18 (redescription); Clark, 1928a: 33; Brown, 1960a: 168, 201; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Heterick, 2009: 132.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Holotype worker from Jarrahdale, Western Australia (museum unknown, probably destroyed in Berlin Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität in WW II).

Type Material

• Holotype, probably destroyed in ZMHB (Berlin) in WW II, Jarrahdale, Western Australia, Australia.

References

• Clark, J. 1928a. Australian Formicidae. J. R. Soc. West. Aust. 14: 29-41 (page 33, queen described)
• Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. (page 263, worker described)
• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of South-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 76:1-206.
• Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
• Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230.
• Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
• Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.