Species Chelaner whitei (Wheeler, 1915)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monomorium (Holcomyrmex) whitei Wheeler, W.M. 1915. Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 805-823 pls 64-66 [Dec. 1915] [807].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Flat Rock Hole in the Musgrave Ranges, SA.
• Monomorium (Holcomyrmex) armstrongi McAreavey, J.J. 1949. Australian Formicidae. New genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 74: 1-25 [15 June 1949] [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC W, Nyngan, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Heterick, B.E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 353-459 [378]

Generic Combinations

• Chelaner whitei (Wheeler, 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

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

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 [233] (formerly Monomorium Mayr, 1855)

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