Species Rhytidoponera mayri (Emery, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ectatomma mayri Emery, C. 1883. Alcune formiche della Nuova Caledonia. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 15: 145-151 [150].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG worker, eastern Australia.
• Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) mayri glabrius Forel, A. 1907. Formicidae. pp. 263–310 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 1. [268].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH worker, Day Dawn and Yalgoo, Western Australia, Australia.
• Rhytidoponera quadriceps Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 9: 14-89 pls 3-6 [30].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV worker, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia.
• Rhytidoponera stridulator Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 9: 14-89 pls 3-6 [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (originally lodged in ANIC), 20 miles N of Bourke, New South Wales, Australia.
• Rhytidoponera occidentalis Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 9: 14-89 pls 3-6 [39].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) WAM worker, Wadgingarra, North of Yalgoo, Western Australia, Australia.
• Rhytidoponera petiolata Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 9: 14-89 pls 3-6 [41].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV worker, Lake Killalpaninna, South Australia, Australia.
• Rhytidoponera dixoni Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 9: 14-89 pls 3-6 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV worker, male, Lake Hattah, Wyperfeld National Park and Pomonal, Victoria, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 118: 173-362 [203]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes