Species Amblyopone longidens Forel, 1910

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• Amblyopone ferruginea var. longidens Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH worker, Bombala, New South Wales, Australia; ANIC worker, Bombala, New South Wales, Australia.

Introduction

Considered a junior synonym of Amblyopone ferruginea by Wheeler (1927), then revived from synonymy and raised to species by Brown (1952).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, 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

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

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

General References

Brown, W.L. jr 1952. The status of some Australian Amblyopone species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 63: 265-267 [266] (raised to species)

Wheeler, W.M. 1927. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62: 1-29 [20]

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