Platythyrea brunnipes

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Platythyrea brunnipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Platythyreini
Genus: Platythyrea
Species: P. brunnipes
Binomial name
Platythyrea brunnipes
(Clark, 1938)

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Specimen Label

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Identification

Identification Keys including this Taxon

Distribution

Heterick (2009) - Found in the wetter south- west of WA, as well as SA.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • brunnipes. Eubothroponera brunnipes Clark, 1938: 361, fig. 3 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia: Reevesby I.).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Australia: South Australia, Reevesby I. (J. Clark).
    • Type-depository: MVMA.
    • Combination in Platythyrea: Brown, 1975: 8.
    • Status as species: Brown, 1975: 8, 53; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 37; Taylor, 1987a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 336; Heterick, 2009: 136.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

Brown (1975) provided the following: P. brunnipes, inadequately described by Clark from Reevesby Island in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, off the coast of South Australia, is also called "castaneous," a color term that Clark consistently used for tints of a much lighter color than is usually associated with that term by other authors. In fact, ants described as "castaneous" by Clark would usually be called "ferruginous" or "reddish yellow" by other authors. Clark said that the antennae, mandibles, and legs of brunnipes were "brown," but his description of the sculpture and pilosity is so sketchy that we cannot say whether the species is related to dentinodis or to turneri; maybe it is to neither.

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Brown W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1): 1-115.
  • 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.