Rhytidoponera lamellinodis

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Rhytidoponera lamellinodis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Rhytidoponera
Species: R. lamellinodis
Binomial name
Rhytidoponera lamellinodis
Santschi, 1919

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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.53333° to -19.85°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

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.

  • lamellinodis. Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) lamellinodis Santschi, 1919a: 327 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
    • Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
    • Type-locality: Australia: Queensland, Townsville (F.P. Dodd).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 203; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 44; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 379.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

  • Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) lamellinodis Santschi, 1919: Syntype, worker(s), Townsville, Queensland, Australia, The Natural History Museum.

Description

Karyotype

  • 2n = 52 (Australia) (Crozier et al., 1986).

References

  • Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 52: 325-350 (page 327, worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • 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.
  • Van Ingen L. T., R. Campos, and A. N. Andersen. 2008. Ant community structure along an extended rain forest-savanna gradient in tropical Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 445-455.