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Onychomyrmex glauerti
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| Onychomyrmex glauerti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
| Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
| Genus: | Onychomyrmex |
| Species: | O. glauerti |
| Binomial name | |
| Onychomyrmex glauerti (Clark, 1928)
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Heterick (2009) - Described from the northern wheatbelt near Geraldton. Additional material in the ANIC comes from Bejoording and Pickering Brook in the Perth region and Mt. Ragged in the south-east. These are all old collection records.
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -28.88332939° to -33.45000076°.
| 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
Check data from AntWeb
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. |
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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
Castes
Worker
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| Paratype of Onychomyrmex glauerti. Worker. Specimen code casent0172203. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia. |
    
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| Worker. Specimen code casent0172206. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia. |
Queen
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| Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0172204. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia. |
Male
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| Male (alate). Specimen code casent0172205. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by ANIC, Canberra, Australia. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- glauerti. Lithomyrmex glauerti Clark, 1928a: 31, pl. 1, figs. 1-11 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
- Type-material: 4 syntype workers, 1 syntype ergatoid queen, 1 male.
- Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Irwin River, viii.1926 (L. Glauert).
- Type-depository: WAMP.
- Combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 168;
- combination in Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19;
- combination in Onychomyrmex: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
- Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 168; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Heterick, 2009: 131.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, 1 worker, Irwin River, Western Australia, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Syntype, 2 workers, 1 queen, 1 male, Irwin River, Western Australia, Australia, 26–605a to 26–605d, Western Australian Museum.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. (1960). Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 122: 143–230.
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Clark, J. (1928). 4.- Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 14: 29–41.
- 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).
- Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology, 41, 683–693 (doi:10.1111/syen.12186).
- Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7(3):e33325 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325).