Lioponera bicolor

Lioponera bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Lioponera
Species:	L. bicolor
Binomial name
	Lioponera bicolor; (Clark, 1924) Specimen Labels

Many of the Dorylinae species that occur in the SWBP are rare, being represented in the Curtin University ant collection by one or a few specimens. Most frequently, stray workers have been collected by hand or in pitfall traps. They also appear to have been adversely affected by urbanization in the greater Perth area. Lioponera bicolor and Lioponera brevicollis, described from material collected from Perth’s eastern and south-eastern suburbs in the 1920’s, have no representatives in the Curtin University ant Collection. (Heterick 2009)

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Lioponera of the southwestern Australian Botanical Province

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -32.15° to -32.15333°.


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.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

bicolor. Phyracaces bicolor Clark, 1924b: 77, pl. 6, figs. 9, 10 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype ergatoid queens (numbers not stated, “Described from two colonies”).
- Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Armadale (J. Clark).
- Type-depository: MVMA.
- Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22;
- combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
- Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 21; Brown, 1975: 22; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 24; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 142; Heterick, 2009: 129.
- Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Syntype, 3 workers, Armadale, Western Australia, Australia, Australian Museum.
Syntype, 5 workers, Armadale, Western Australia, Australia, Clark,J., ANIC32-053460, Australian National Insect Collection.
Syntype, 9 workers, Armadale, Western Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), Armadale, Western Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
Syntype, 2 workers, Armadale, Western Auslralia, Australia, Queensland Museum.
Syntype, 2 workers, Armadale, Western Australia, Australia, South Australian Museum.
Syntype, 3 workers, Armadale, Western Australia, Australia, Western Australian Museum.

Description

References

Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1 1: 1-115 (page 22, Combination in Cerapachys)
Clark, J. 1924b. Australian Formicidae. J. Proc. R. Soc. West. Aust. 10: 75-89 (page 77, pl.6, figs.9,10 worker, queen 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).
Wheeler, W. M.; Chapman, J. W. 1925. The ants of the Philippine Islands. Part I, Dorylinae and Ponerinae. Philipp. J. Sci. 28: 47-73 (page 54, pl. 1, figs. 15, 16 worker, queen, male described (Unresolved junior secondary homonym of bicolor Clark))