Species Chelaner centrale (Forel, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monomorium centrale Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH W, Tennant Creek, NT.

Generic Combinations

• Chelaner centrale (Forel, 1910). —
  Sparks, K.S., Andersen, A.N., & Austin, A.D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33: 225-236

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

Sparks, K.S., Andersen, A.N., & Austin, A.D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33: 225-236 [232] (formerly Monomorium Mayr, 1855)

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