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Lioponera elegans
| Lioponera elegans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Lioponera |
| Species: | L. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Lioponera elegans (Wheeler, W.M., 1918)
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -33.6236° to -33.8652°.
| 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
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Syntype of Phyracaces elegans. Worker. Specimen code casent0915333. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by MNHN, Paris, France. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- elegans. Phyracaces elegans Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 254, fig. 13 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
- Type-material: 40 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen.
- Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Southerland, nr Sydney, 16.ix.1914 (W.M. Wheeler).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22;
- combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
- Status as species: Brown, 1975: 22; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 25; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 143; Heterick, 2009: 129.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Phyracaces elegans Wheeler, 1918: Syntype, 3 workers, Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
- Phyracaces elegans Wheeler, 1918: Syntype, 9 workers, 1 queen, Sutherland (as Southerland), New South Wales, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Phyracaces elegans Wheeler, 1918: Syntype, 2 workers, Sutherland (as Southerland), New South Wales, Australia, South 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).
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 143, catalogue)
- 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)
- 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. 1918a. The Australian ants of the ponerine tribe Cerapachyini. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 53: 215-265 (page 254, fig. 13 worker, queen described)