Amblyopone longidens
Amblyopone longidens | |
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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 |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -28.31666667° to -39.03333333°.
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
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
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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).
- [Note: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 126, cites 1w syntype NHMB.]
- Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bombala (W.W. 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
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 62, catalogue)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952l. The status of some Australian Amblyopone species (Hym.: Formicidae). Entomol. News 63: 265-267. (page 266, Revived from synonymy and raised to species)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230 (page 207, see also)
- Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94 (page 1, worker described)
- 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 446, larva described)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1927c. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 1-29 (page 20, Junior synonym of ferruginea)
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.