Species Chelaner longiceps (Wheeler, 1934)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monomorium (Notomyrmex) longiceps Wheeler, W.M. 1934. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 137- 163 [5 Oct. 1934] [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Lady Edeline Beach, Rottnest Is. and Ludlow, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Chelaner longiceps (Wheeler, 1934). —
  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, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

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 [233] (formerly Monomorium Mayr, 1855)

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