Species Anochetus armstrongi McAreavey, 1949

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• Anochetus armstrongi McAreavey, J.J. 1949. Australian Formicidae. New genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 74: 1-25 [15 June 1949] [1].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC W,Q, Nyngan, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, predator, shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

Shattuck, S.O. & Slipinska, E. 2012. Revision of the Australian species of the ant genus Anochetus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3426: 1–28 [7] (revised description)

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