Amblyopone michaelseni

Although the type specimen was taken at Jarrahdale, where Curtin University students and other researchers have done much work on ants, there are no specimens in the Curtin Ant Collection. Possibly this is a species that has been affected by alteration in land use around Perth. (Heterick 2009)

Distribution
Heterick (2009) - Collected in Western Australia and Victoria, but is apparently very rare in WA.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Amblyopone michaelseni Forel, 1907h: 263 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Jarrahdale, Stat. 129 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer).
 * Type-depository: unknown.
 * [Note: holotype was originally in Hamburg Museum, and was probably destroyed in World War II (Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20).]
 * Clark, 1928a: 33 (q.).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 26; Wheeler, W.M. 1927c: 18 (redescription); Clark, 1928a: 33; Brown, 1960a: 168, 201; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62; Heterick, 2009: 132.
 * Distribution: Australia.

Holotype worker from Jarrahdale, Western Australia (museum unknown, probably destroyed in in WW II).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230.
 * 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.