Species Chelaner tambourinense (Forel, 1915)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monomorium kiliani tambourinensis Forel, A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(no.16): 1-119, pls 1-3 [Date published 4 Dec. 1915] [71].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mt. Tambourine (=Tamborine Mt.), QLD; ANIC W, Mt. Tambourine (=Tamborine Mt.), QLD
  Comment: other syntypes may exist.
• Monomorium (Notomyrmex) howense Wheeler, W.M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62: 121-153 [138].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W,Q, Lord Howe Is.

 

Generic Combinations

• Chelaner tambourinense (Forel, 1915). —
  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

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australia, Lord Howe Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

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)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Feb-2022	FORMICIDAE Latreille, 1809	15-Oct-2021	MODIFIED
23-Mar-2015	VESPOIDEA	18-Mar-2015	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Jan-2011	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		14-Jan-2011	MODIFIED
		25-May-2010	MODIFIED