Echinopla turneri

Echinopla turneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Echinopla
Species group:	serrata
Species:	E. turneri
Binomial name
Echinopla turneri Forel, 1901 Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Echinopla turneri pictipes Forel, 1901

Identification

A member of the Echinopla serrata group.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Echinopla Species
• Key to Echinopla species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -19° to -24.183°.

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
Echinopla turneri	style="color:white;background-color:rgb(190, 190, 190)"|20-30
Shading indicates the bands of elevation where species was recorded. Numbers are the percentage of total samples containing this species.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Echinopla turneri. Worker. Specimen code casent0910968. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Syntype of Echinopla turneri pictipes. Worker. Specimen code casent0910969. Photographer Z. Lieberman, 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.

• pictipes. Echinopla turneri var. pictipes Forel, 1901h: 76 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of turneri: Taylor, 1992a: 61.
• turneri. Echinopla turneri Forel, 1901h: 76 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Senior synonym of pictipes: Taylor, 1992a: 61.

Type Material

• Syntype, 2 workers, Mackay, Queensland, Australia, Turner, ANIC32-053496, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Syntype, 1 worker, Mackay, Queensland, Australia, Turner, ANIC32-053498, Australian National Insect Collection.

References

• 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.
• Forel, A. 1901m. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hambg. 18: 43-82 (page 76, worker, queen described)
• Taylor, R. W. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 31: 57-69 (page 61, Senior synonym of pictipes)
• Zettel, H. & Laciny, A. 2017. Further additions to the taxonomy and distribution of the ant genus Echinopla. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, B, 119: 7-16.
• Xu, Z.-H. & Zhou, X. 2015. Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species. Asian Myrmecology, 7, 19-36.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Forel A. 1901. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hambg. 18: 43-82.
• Taylor R. W. 1992. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 57-69.