Species Calyptomyrmex beccarii Emery, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calyptomyrmex baccarii Emery, C. 1887. Cataloge delle Formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova, Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 5: 427-473 pls 1-2 [472].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown unspecified material, Ambon, Indonesia.
• Calyptomyrmex schraderi Forel, A. 1901. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma-, und Echinopla-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18: 45-82 [50].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) probably destroyed in ZMH in W.W. II, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Taylor, R.W. 1991. Nomenclature and ditribution of some Australasian ants of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 599-614 [600]
• Shattuck, S.O. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Calyptomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South-east Asia and Oceania. Zootaxa 2743(1-26) [5]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes