Myrmecia maura

Myrmecia maura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	Myrmeciini
Genus:	Myrmecia
Species group:	pilosula
Species:	M. maura
Binomial name
	Myrmecia maura; Wheeler, W.M., 1933

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Australian Myrmecia Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -33.41666667° to -36.6°.


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.

maura. Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) aberrans subsp. maura Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 51 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
- Type-material: 15 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bathurst, 16-17.xii.1931 (W.M. Wheeler).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- Clark, 1943: 96 (q.).
- Combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 95;
- combination in Myrmecia: Brown, 1953j: 18.
- Status as species: Clark, 1943: 95 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 132 (redescription); Brown, 1953j: 18; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 12; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 356; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1632 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 272.
- Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Syntype, 2 workers, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, Wheeler, ANIC32-005913, Australian National Insect Collection.
Syntype, 1 worker, Red Hill, ACT, Australia, Hill,G.F., ANIC32-005914, Australian National Insect Collection.
Syntype, 1 worker, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, Wheeler, ANIC32-010155, Australian National Insect Collection.
Syntype, 3 workers, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Description

References

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953j. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111: 1-35.
Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 96, queen described)
Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 95, Combination in Promyrmecia)
Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 95, Raised to species)
Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.]
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 51, worker described)