Species Austromorium flavigaster (Clark, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xiphomyrmex flavigaster Clark, J. 1938. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. No. 2. Sir Joseph Bank Islands. Part I. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 50: 356-382 [366].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV *W, Reevesby Is., SA.

Generic Combinations

• Austromorium flavigaster (Clark, 1938). —
  Heterick, B.E. 2009. A guide to the ants of the South-West Botanical Province, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 76: 1-206

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 34: 283-379 [28 Oct. 1976] (transferred to Chelaner)

Shattuck, S.O. 2009. Austromorium, a new myrmicine ant genus from Australia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2193: 62-68 [65-66]

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