Chelaner sublamellatus

This small (TL < 2.5 mm) ant was collected many years ago from a litter berlesate from North Twin Peaks Island in the Recherche Archipelago. The holotype and sole known specimen (a worker) belongs to the WA Museum. (Heterick 2009)

Identification
Heterick (2009) - Three large and four minute teeth on each mandible, sharp propodeal spines (similar to those possessed by the eastern states species Monomorium sculpturatum), and a large, ventrally carinate, subpetiolar process that ends in a spur anteriad.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  sublamellatum. Monomorium sublamellatum Heterick, 2003: 250, figs. 2, 3, (w.) AUSTRALIA.