Lioponera ficosa

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Phyracaces ficosus Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 252, fig. 12 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
 * Type-material: 12 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bulli Pass, 4.xii.1914 (W.M. Wheeler).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1973d: 205 (l.).
 * Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22;
 * combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
 * Status as species: Brown, 1975: 22, 66; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 25; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 143.
 * Distribution: Australia.

Type Material


Original notes (Wheeler, 1918): Described from a dozen specimens taken Dec. 4, 1914 in the Bulli Pass, New South Wales. They were running over the sand in a loose file, carrying the nude pupae of a Myrmicine ant whose nest they had just plundered.