Lioponera bicolor

Many of the Dorylinae species that occur in the SWBP are rare, being represented in the Curtin University ant collection by one or a few specimens. Most frequently, stray workers have been collected by hand or in pitfall traps. They also appear to have been adversely affected by urbanization in the greater Perth area. Lioponera bicolor and Lioponera brevicollis, described from material collected from Perth’s eastern and south-eastern suburbs in the 1920’s, have no representatives in the Curtin University ant Collection. (Heterick 2009)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Phyracaces bicolor Clark, 1924b: 77, pl. 6, figs. 9, 10 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype ergatoid queens (numbers not stated, “Described from two colonies”).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Armadale (J. Clark).
 * Type-depository: MVMA.
 * Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22;
 * combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
 * Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 21; Brown, 1975: 22; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 24; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 142; Heterick, 2009: 129.
 * Distribution: Australia.