Myrmecia tridentata

Myrmecia tridentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Tribe:	Myrmeciini
Genus:	Myrmecia
Species group:	gulosa
Species:	M. tridentata
Binomial name
Myrmecia tridentata Ogata & Taylor, 1991 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Australian Myrmecia Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -28.3986° to -38.48332977°.

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.

• tridentata. Myrmecia tridentata Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1651, figs. 36-38 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 42 paratype workers.
  • Type-locality: holotype Australia: New South Wales, Mt Warning (28/153), Breakfast Creek, 1000 ft, 30.viii.1966, rainforest (B.B. Lowery); paratypes: 33 workers with same data, 9 workers slopes W Mt Warning (28/153), 800 ft, 31.viii.1964 (B.B. Lowery).
  • Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); AMSC, ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, MHNG (paratypes).
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 273.
  • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

• Holotype, worker, Breakfast Creek (? = Karrumbyn Creek), 1000 ft., Mt Warning, New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Paratype, 22 workers, Breakfast Creek (? = Karrumbyn Creek), 1000 ft., Mt Warning, New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Paratype, 9 workers, W Mt. Warning, 800 ft., New South Wales, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
• Paratype, 2 workers, 50mi. W Mt. Warning, New South Wales, Australia, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

References

• 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 1651, figs. 36-38 worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• 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