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Arnoldius flavus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Arnoldius |
| Species: | A. flavus |
| Binomial name | |
| Arnoldius flavus (Crawley, 1922)
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Within Western Australia this ant has been found in Jarrah-Marri woodlands south of Perth to as far north as the Zuytdorp region, north of Kalbarri (Heterick, 2009).
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -31.85° to -31.85°.
| 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
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0103285. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
   
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0178491. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MCZ, Cambridge, MA, USA. |
Queen
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| Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0103284. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- flavus. Bothriomyrmex flavus Crawley, 1922c: 27, fig. 15 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- [Notes (i): Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 79, cites 1w syntype NHMB; (ii) Shattuck, 1994: 33, cites 16w, 6q, 3m syntypes (3w, 2q MCZC, 7w, 2q, 1m MHNG, 1w NHMB, 5w, 2q, 2m OXUM); (iii) Shattuck also cites specimens from Lion Mill, which are not type-material.]
- Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Mundaring Weir, nos 21, 22, 57, 124, 147 (J. Clark).
- Type-depositories: MCZC, MHNG, NHMB, OXUM.
- Combination in Arnoldius: Dubovikoff, 2005: 93.
- Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 92; Taylor, 1987a: 8; Shattuck, 1994: 33; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Dubovikoff, 2005: 93.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Lectotype, worker, Mundaring Weir, Western Australia, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
- Paralectotype, 3 workers, 2 queens, Western Australia, Australia, The Natural History Museum.
- Paralectotype, 3 workers, 2 queens, Mundaring Weir, Western Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Paralectotype, 1 worker, 1 queen, 1 male, Mount Helena (as Lion Mill), Western Australia, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
- Paralectotype, 7 workers, 2 queens, 1 male, unknown locality, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
- Paralectotype, 4 workers, Mundaring Weir, Western Australia, Australia, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel.
- Paralectotype, 5 workers, 2 queens, 2 males, Mundaring Weir, Western Australia, Australia, Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
- Paralectotype, 2 workers, 2 queens, Mount Helena (as Lion Mill), Western Australia, Australia, Clark,J., South Australian Museum; (2 workers (one body missing, legs only), 1 queen, 1 male seen Nov. 2008 by S.Shattuck).
Description
References
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Crawley, W. C. 1922e. New ants from Australia (concluded from vol. ix. p. 449). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(10): 16-36. (page 27, fig. 15 worker, queen, male described)
- Dubovikoff, D.A. 2005. The system of taxon Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 sensu lato (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and relatives genera. Kavkazskii Entomologicheskii Byulleten 1(1): 89-94 (page 93, transferred to Arnoldius; combination in Arnoldius)
- Heterick, B. E. 2009a. 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
- Shattuck S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112: i-xix, 1-241.