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Amblyopone michaelseni
| Amblyopone michaelseni | |
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| 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
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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
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. |
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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 casent0102195. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMUK, London, UK. |
Queen
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| 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, 1905 (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.
Description
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.