Myrmecia fucosa
Myrmecia fucosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
Tribe: | Myrmeciini |
Genus: | Myrmecia |
Species group: | picta |
Species: | M. fucosa |
Binomial name | |
Myrmecia fucosa Clark, 1934 |
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -33.13333893° to -36.16666667°.
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
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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
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Phylogeny
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Based on Mera-Rodríguez et al. (2023).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- fucosa. Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) fucosa Clark, 1934a: 15, pl. 1, figs. 5, 6 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria, South Australia).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen.
- Type-localities: Australia: Victoria, Lake Hattah, Ouyen (J.E. Dixon), Victoria, Sea Lake (J.C. Goudie), Victoria, Wyperfield (J. Clark), South Australia, Murray Bridge (A.M. Lea).
- [Note: type-locality Victoria by restriction of Clark, 1951: 144.]
- Type-depository: MVMA.
- Clark, 1943: 103 (m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 249 (l.).
- Combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 102;
- combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 10.
- Status as species: Clark, 1943: 102 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 142 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 10; Taylor, 1987a: 43; Ogata, 1991a: 361; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1640 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 271.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, 3 workers, Wyperfield, Victoria, Australia, Clark,J., ANIC32-017429, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Syntype, 1 worker, Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia, Lea, ANIC32-017430, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), Lake Hattah, Ouyen, Sea Lake, Wyperfield, Victoria; Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
Description
References
- Clark, J. 1934a. Notes on Australian ants, with descriptions of new species and a new genus. Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 8: 5-20 (page 15, pl. 1, figs. 5, 6 worker, queen described)
- Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 103, Combination in Promyrmecia)
- Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 103, male described)
- Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.]
- 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).
- Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 10, Combination in Myrmecia)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971d. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 47: 245-256 (page 249, larva described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.
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