Amblyopone leae

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia, Lord Howe Island.

Nomenclature

 * . Amblyopone leae Wheeler, W.M. 1927c: 16, fig. 3 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Lord Howe I.).
 * Type-material: 24 syntype workers (“two colonies”).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Lord Howe I. (“one colony on summit of Mt Gervis”) (A.M. Lea).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1927i: 129; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 9; Brown, 1960a: 168, 201; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.
 * Distribution: Australia.

Syntype workers form Lord Howe Island (24 in, 2 in ).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 122: 143-230.
 * CSIRO Collection
 * Hoffmann, B. D., R. Graham, and D. Smith. 2017. Ant species accumulation on Lord Howe Island highlights the increasing need for effective biosecurity on islands. NeoBiota 34:41-52.
 * Jennings J. T., and A. D. Austin. 2015. Synopsis of the hymenopteran fauna of Lord Howe Island with a preliminary checklist of species. Zootaxa 3931(3): 423432.
 * 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.
 * Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1927. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 1-29
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler WM. 1927. Ants of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 62.4: 120-153.
 * Wheeler, W. M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 121-153