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Rhytidoponera reflexa
| Rhytidoponera reflexa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Rhytidoponera |
| Species: | R. reflexa |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhytidoponera reflexa Clark, 1936
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -11.175972° to -12.38333333°.
| 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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- reflexa. Rhytidoponera reflexa Clark, 1936: 76, pl. 6, fig. 54 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
- Type-material: 12 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Australia: Northern Territory, Koolpinyah (G.F. Hill), Koolpinyah (C.L. Barrett) (by restriction of Brown, 1958g: 277).
- [Note: other locality mentioned in the original description was Bathurst I. (G.F. Hill).]
- Type-depository: MVMA.
- Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 204, 277; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 47; Taylor, 1987a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, 1 worker, Koolpinyah, Northern Territory, Australia, Hill,G.F., ANIC32-011953, Australian National Insect Collection.
- Syntype, worker(s), Koolpinyah and Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia, Museum Victoria, Melbourne.
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 277, see also)
- Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 9: 14-89 (page 76, pl. 6, fig. 54 worker described)
- 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).
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.