Amblyopone hackeri

Amblyopone hackeri
Amblyopone hackeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Amblyopone
Species:	A. hackeri
Binomial name
Amblyopone hackeri Wheeler, W.M., 1927 Specimen labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -21.14999962° to -33.88334°.

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

Occurrence at collecting sites during elevational surveys of rainforest in the Eungella region, Queensland, Australia (Burwell et al., 2020).

Species	Elevation (m asl)
	200	400	600	800	1000	1200
Amblyopone hackeri					20-30
Shading indicates the bands of elevation where species was recorded. Numbers are the percentage of total samples containing this species.

Nomenclature

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

• hackeri. Amblyopone hackeri Wheeler, W.M. 1927c: 22, fig. 6 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
  • Type-material: 12 syntype workers.
  • Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, National Park (H. Hacker).
  • Type-depository: MCZC (perhaps also SAMA).
  • Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168, 207; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Syntype workers from Lamington Nat. Park (as National Park), Queensland (5 workers in Museum of Comparative Zoology, location of 6 workers uncertain, 1 worker in Museum Victoria, Melbourne, 1 worker in National Museum of Natural History).

Type Material

• Syntype, 5 workers, Lamington Nat. Park (as National Park), Queensland, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
• Syntype, 1 worker, Lamington Nat. Park (as National Park), Queensland, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
• Syntype, 1 worker, Lamington Nat. Park (as National Park), Queensland, Australia, National Museum of Natural History.
• Syntype, 6 workers, Lamington Nat. Park (as National Park), Queensland, Australia.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 62, catalogue)
• 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.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1927c. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 1-29 (page 22, fig. 6 worker described)

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.