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Rhytidoponera foreli
| Rhytidoponera foreli | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Rhytidoponera |
| Species: | R. foreli |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhytidoponera foreli Crawley, 1918
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -11.175972° to -13.48333333°.
| 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. |
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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
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Holotype of Rhytidoponera foreli. Worker. Specimen code casent0900532. Photographer Ryan Perry, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMUK, London, UK. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- foreli. Rhytidoponera (Rhytidoponera) foreli Crawley, 1918: 87 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Australia: Northern Territory, Koolpinyah, 1915, no. 589 (G.F. Hill).
- Type-depositories: NHMB, OXUM.
- Status as species: Clark, 1936: 77 (redescription); Brown, 1958g: 203; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 43; Taylor, 1987a: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 379.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, 22 workers (1 labelled as holotype), Koolpinyah, Northern Territory, Australia, The Natural History Museum.
- Syntype, 1 worker, Koolpinyah, Northern Territory, Australia, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- Syntype, 2 workers, Koolpinyah, Northern Territory, Australia, Queensland Museum.
Description
References
- Crawley, W. C. 1918. Some new Australian ants. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 30: 86-92. (page 87, worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Andersen A. N., J. C. Z. Woinarski, and B. Hoffman. 2004. Biogeography of the ant fauna of the Tiwi Islands, in northern Australia's moonsoonal tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 97-110.
- Andersen A. N., M. Houadria, M. Berman, and M. van der Geest. Rainforest ants of the Tiwi Islands: a remarkable centr of endemism in Australia's monsoonal tropics. Insectes Sociaux 59: 433-441.
- Andersen, Alan N., John C.Z. Woinarski and Ben D. Hoffman. 2004. Biogeography of the ant fauna of the Tiwi Islands, in northern Australia's monsoonal tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 97-110.
- Brown W. L., Jr. 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362.
- Clark J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 9: 14-89