Myrmecia rowlandi

Myrmecia rowlandi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	Myrmeciini
Genus:	Myrmecia
Species group:	gulosa
Species:	M. rowlandi
Binomial name
Myrmecia rowlandi Forel, 1910 Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Myrmecia cordata Clark, Clark, 1951 Myrmecia cardigaster Brown, 1953 Myrmecia tarsata malandensis Forel, 1915

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Myrmecia Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -15.8° to -19.00261368°.

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.

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Myrmecia rowlandi. Worker. Specimen code casent0907094. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Phylogeny

Myrmecia

gulosa group Myrmecia esuriens Myrmecia midas Myrmecia pulchra Myrmecia mjobergi Myrmecia regularis Myrmecia forficata Myrmecia brevinoda Myrmecia erecta Myrmecia pyriformis Myrmecia browningi Myrmecia sp. Myrmecia analis Myrmecia minuscula Myrmecia comata Myrmecia rowlandi Myrmecia flavicoma Myrmecia tarsata Myrmecia tridentata Myrmecia eungellensis Myrmecia fabricii Myrmecia athertonensis Myrmecia auriventris Myrmecia borealis Myrmecia gulosa Myrmecia forceps Myrmecia simillima Myrmecia arnoldi Myrmecia fulgida Myrmecia pavida Myrmecia vindex Myrmecia fuscipes Myrmecia (near nigriceps) Myrmecia desertorum Myrmecia nigriceps Myrmecia nigriceps Myrmecia inquilina nigrocincta group Myrmecia flammicollis Myrmecia petiolata Myrmecia nigrocincta picta group Myrmecia fucosa Myrmecia picta Myrmecia infima Myrmecia urens apicalis group Myrmecia apicalis pilosula group Myrmecia testaceipes Myrmecia acuta Myrmecia chasei Myrmecia clarki Myrmecia dispar Myrmecia occidentalis Myrmecia tepperi Myrmecia elegans Myrmecia varians Myrmecia banksi Myrmecia croslandi Myrmecia impaternata Myrmecia haskinsorum Myrmecia pilosula Myrmecia pilosula Myrmecia (near pilosula)

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.

• rowlandi. Myrmecia tarsata subsp. rowlandi Forel, 1910b: 4 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-localities: Australia: Queensland, Curanda (= Kuranda) (R. Turner?), Queensland, Cairns (R. Turner?).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Status as species: Clark, 1951: 78 (redescription); Brown, 1953j: 10; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata, 1991a: 358; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1635 (in key), 1660; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
  • Senior synonym of cardigaster: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1660; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
  • Senior synonym of malandensis: Brown, 1953j: 10; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1660; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
  • Distribution: Australia.
• cardigaster. Myrmecia cardigaster Brown, 1953j: 28.
  • Replacement name for Myrmecia cordata Clark, 1951: 116. [Junior primary homonym of Myrmecia cordata Fabricius, 1804: 425].
  • Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 7; Ogata, 1991a: 358.
  • Junior synonym of rowlandi: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1660; Bolton, 1995b: 270.
• malandensis. Myrmecia tarsata r. malandensis Forel, 1915b: 9 (w.m.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Malanda (E. Mjöberg).
  • Type-depositories: ANIC, MHNG (possibly also in NHRS).
  • Subspecies of tarsata: Clark, 1951: 32 (redescription).
  • Junior synonym of rowlandi: Brown, 1953j: 10; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1660; Bolton, 1995b: 272.

Type Material

• Myrmecia cordata: Holotype, worker, Malanda, Queensland, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Myrmecia tarsata malandensis: Syntype, 1 worker, Malanda, Queensland, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Myrmecia tarsata malandensis: Syntype, worker(s), Malanda, Ravenshoe (as Cedar Creek) and Atherton, Queensland, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
• Myrmecia tarsata rowlandi: Syntype, worker(s), Malanda, Queensland, Australia, Mjoberg, ANIC32-014590, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Myrmecia tarsata rowlandi: Syntype, worker(s), Kuranda (as Curanda) and Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.

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 (page 10, Senior synonym of malandensis)
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.]
• Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94 (page 4, worker described)
• 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).
• Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25: 1623-1673 (page 1660, Senior synonym of cardigaster)