Species Amblyopone ferruginea Smith, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amblyopone ferruginea Smith, F. 1858. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 6. Formicidae. London : British Museum 216 pp. 14 pls. [27 Mar. 1858] [110].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH worker, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Amblyopone mandibularis Clark, J. 1928. Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 14: 29-41 pl. l [24 April 1928] [33].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV worker, Belgrave, Victoria, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1952. The status of some Australian Amblyopone species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 63: 265-267 [265]

Generic Combinations

• Stigmatomma ferrugineum (Smith, 1858). —
  Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A Revision of Male Ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Resurrections of the Genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 7(3): e33325 [19]

Introduction

Yoshimura & Fisher (2012) transferred this species to Stigmatomma, but Ward & Fisher (2016) reassigned it to Amblyopone

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 41(3): 683-693 [691]

Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A Revision of Male Ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Resurrections of the Genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 7(3): e33325 [19]

History of changes