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Rhytidoponera maledicta
| Rhytidoponera maledicta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Rhytidoponera |
| Species: | R. maledicta |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhytidoponera maledicta Forel, 1915
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Identification
Distribution
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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- maledicta. Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) victoriae r. maledicta Forel, 1915b: 15 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Australia: Queensland, Malanda, and Cedar Creek (E. Mjöberg).
- Type-depositories: MHNG, NHRS.
- Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 203, 286; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 44; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 379.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) victoriae maledicta Forel, 1915: Syntype, worker(s), queen(s), male(s), Malanda and Ravenshoe (as Cedar Creek), Queensland, Australia, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 203, Raised to species)
- Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(1 16: 1-119 (page 15, worker, queen, male described)