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Myopias tasmaniensis
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Myopias |
| Species: | M. tasmaniensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Myopias tasmaniensis Wheeler, W.M., 1923
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| Synonyms | |
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Identification
Keys including this Species
- Key to Australian Myopias Species
- Key to Myopias workers
- Key to Ponerinae genera of the southwestern Australian Botanical Province
Distribution
Heterick (2009) - Myopias tasmaniensis has been collected just twice from near Manjimup, in the extreme south-west of the SWBP, WA. This species is otherwise known from Eastern Australia (Queensland to Tasmania).
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -28.05° to -41.8°.
| 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. |
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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
Willey and Brown (1983) - Two collections made by Father Bede Lowery extend the range far to the north in eastern Australia; Minnamurra Falls, near Kiama, New South Wales, nest in soil of very moist forest, behind rock slab set in a vertical bank, 22 Dec. 1959; Cunningham's Gap, southeastern Queensland, at about 600 m in rain forest,. 22 Jan. 1961.
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- tasmaniensis. Myopias tasmaniensis Wheeler, W.M. 1923e: 177, fig. 1 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Tasmania).
- Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Australia: Tasmania, Hobart (A.M. Lea).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1964b: 454 (l.).
- Combination in Trapeziopelta: Brown, 1953i: 51.
- Status as species: Willey & Brown, 1983: 270; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35; Taylor, 1987a: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 270; Probst, Guénard & Boudinot, 2015: 206 (in key).
- Senior synonym of diadela: Brown, 1953i: 51; Willey & Brown, 1983: 270; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35; Taylor, 1987a: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 269.
- Distribution: Australia.
- diadela. Trapeziopelta diadela Clark, 1934c: 54, pl. 4, figs. 7, 8 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “two small nests”).
- Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Otway Ranges, Turton’s Track, nr Mt Sabine, i.1932, beech forest (J. Clark).
- Type-depository: MVMA.
- Junior synonym of tasmaniensis: Brown, 1953i: 51; Willey & Brown, 1983: 270; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35; Taylor, 1987a: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 269.
Type Material
- Myopias tasmaniensis: Syntype, 2 workers, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Trapeziopelta diadela Clark, 1934: Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), Turtons Track, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953i. An Australian Trapeziopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 60: 51 (page 51, Senior synonym of diadela)
- 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).
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1964b. The ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae: supplement. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 57: 443-462 (page 454, larva described)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1923f. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Camb.) 30: 175-192 (page 177, fig. 1 worker described)
- Willey, R. B. and Brown, W. L., Jr. 1983. New species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche. 90:249-285.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- CSIRO Collection
- Clark J. 1934. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8: 48-73.
- Lowery B. B., and R. J. Taylor. 1994. Occurrence of ant species in a range of sclerophyll forest communities at Old Chum Dam, north-eastern Tasmania. Australian Entomologist 21: 11-14.
- 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.
- Wheeler W. M. 1923. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Cambridge) 30: 175-192.
- Willey R. B.; W. L., Jr Brown. 1983. New species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 90: 249-285.