Myrmecia nobilis

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Myrmecia nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Tribe: Myrmeciini
Genus: Myrmecia
Species group: pilosula
Species: M. nobilis
Binomial name
Myrmecia nobilis
(Clark, 1943)

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -34.5° to -38.01666667°.

   
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

Queen is ergatoid, i.e. no wings at adult emergence.

Ergatoid queen of M. nobilis. From Harvard MCZ collection. Photograph by Roberto Keller
Ergatoid queen of M. nobilis. From Harvard MCZ collection. Photograph by Roberto Keller

Nomenclature

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

  • nobilis. Promyrmecia nobilis Clark, 1943: 97, pl. 12, figs. 2-4 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
    • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
    • Type-localities: Australia: Victoria, Altona (J.E. Dixon), Altona (T. Greaves), Altona (J. Clark), Victoria, Bacchus Marsh (C. Oke), Victoria, Coburg (C. Oke), Victoria, Broadmeadows (F.P. Spry), Victoria, Geelong (A.D. Butcher), Victoria, Patho (H. Potter).
    • Type-depository: MVMA.
    • Combination in Myrmecia: Brown, 1953j: 19.
    • Status as species: Clark, 1951: 124 (redescription); Brown, 1953j: 19; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 13; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 356; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1632 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 272.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • CSIRO Collection