Myrmecia clarki
| Myrmecia clarki | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmeciini |
| Genus: | Myrmecia |
| Species: | M. clarki |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrmecia clarki Crawley, 1922
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This ant is quite common in Banksia woodland around Perth, but has been collected as far north as Ethel Creek in the Pilbara. (Heterick 2009)
Identification
Heterick (2009) - Myrmecia clarki is a small, dark Myrmecia with yellow mandibles.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -31.9° to -35.03332901°.
| 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.
- clarki. Myrmecia clarki Crawley, 1922b: 432 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Mudaring Weir, no. 112 (J. Clark).
- Type-depository: OXUM.
- Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 61 (q.); Clark, 1943: 132 (m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 247 (l.).
- Combination in M. (Promyrmecia): Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 61;
- combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 132;
- combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 7.
- Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 61; Clark, 1943: 132 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 174 (redescription); Ogata, 1991a: 362; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 7; Taylor, 1987a: 42; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1642 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 270; Heterick, 2009: 123.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, 2 workers, 1 queen, 1 male, Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia, Clark,J., ANIC32-017884, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Syntype, 2 workers, 1 queen, Albany, Western Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Syntype, 4 workers (1 missing petiole and gaster), Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Syntype, worker(s), Mundaring Weir, Western Australia, Australia, Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
- Syntype, 6 workers, Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia, South Australian Museum.
Description
References
- Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 132, male described,, Combination in Promyrmecia)
- Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.]
- Crawley, W. C. 1922a. New ants from Australia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(9): 427-448.
- 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).
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 7, Combination in Myrmecia)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971d. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 47: 245-256 (page 247, larva described)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1933i. Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp. (page 61, queen described, Combination in M. (Promyrmecia))
