Species Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960

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• Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, W.L. jr 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 122: 143-230 [205].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC worker, Calga, New South Wales, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Stigmatomma gingivale (Brown, 1960). —
  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 Yoshimura & Fisher (2014) reassigned it to Amblyopone

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soils.

General References

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]

Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. A revision of the ant genus Mystrium in the Malagasy region with description of six new species and remarks on Amblyopone,/em> and Stigmatomma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae). ZooKeys 394: 1–99 [14]