Myrmecia testaceipes

Myrmecia testaceipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	Myrmeciini
Genus:	Myrmecia
Species group:	pilosula
Species:	M. testaceipes
Binomial name
Myrmecia testaceipes (Clark, 1943) Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Promyrmecia dixoni Clark, 1943

Identification

Heterick (2009) - Myrmecia testaceipes resembles Myrmecia swalei but has reddish brown legs (compared with blackish legs) and a postpetiole that is lighter in colour than the gaster (compared with one that is concolorous with the gaster).

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Myrmecia Species
• Key to Myrmecia of the southwestern Australian Botanical Province

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -32.15° to -37.75°.

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.

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.

• testaceipes. Promyrmecia testaceipes Clark, 1943: 134, pl. 15, fig. 69 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Albany (J. Clark).
  • Type-depository: MVMA.
  • Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17.
  • Status as species: Clark, 1951: 178 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata, 1991a: 362; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1642 (in key), 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 273; Heterick, 2009: 123.
  • Senior synonym of dixoni: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
  • Distribution: Australia.
• dixoni. Promyrmecia dixoni Clark, 1943: 135, pl. 16, figs. 77, 78 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory).
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Eltham (J.E. Dixon), Victoria, Eltham (F.E. Wilson); non-type locality syntypes New South Wales, Albury (F.E. Wilson), Australian Federal (= Capital) Territory, Canberra (T. Greaves).
  • [Note: type-locality Victoria by restriction of Clark, 1951: 180.]
  • Type-depository: MVMA.
  • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 247 (l.).
  • Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8.
  • Status as species: Clark, 1951: 179 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8; Taylor, 1987a: 42; Ogata, 1991a: 362.
  • Junior synonym of testaceipes: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 271.

Type Material

• Promyrmecia dixoni: Syntype, 3 workers, Albury, Western Australia, Australia, Wilson,F.E., ANIC32-017887, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Promyrmecia dixoni: Syntype, 3 workers, Australia, Australia, <collector unknown>, ANIC32-017888, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Promyrmecia dixoni: Syntype, 1 worker, Eltham, Victoria, Australia, Dixon,J.E., ANIC32-017889, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Promyrmecia dixoni: Syntype, 1 worker, Eltham, Victoria, Australia, <collector unknown>, ANIC32-017890, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Promyrmecia dixoni: Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), Eltham, Victoria; Albury, New South Wales; Canberra, ACT, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
• Promyrmecia testaceipes: Syntype, 3 workers, Albany, Western Australia, Australia, Clark,J., ANIC32-017886, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Promyrmecia testaceipes: Syntype, 2 workers (1 missing head), Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
• Promyrmecia testaceipes: Syntype, worker(s), Albany, Western Australia, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
• Promyrmecia testaceipes: Syntype, 1 worker, Albany, Western Australia, Australia, South Australian Museum.

References

• Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 134, pl. 15, fig. 69 worker described)
• 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).
• 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 1666, Senior synonym of dixoni)
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 17, Combination in Myrmecia)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Heterick B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76: 1-206. 
• Ogata K. and 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
• Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
• Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.