Species Rhytidoponera chalybaea Emery, 1901

Museums

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• Rhytidoponera impressa chalybaea Emery, C. 1901. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 45: 32-54 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG worker, New South Wales.
• Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) cyrus Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [13].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH worker, queen, Ballina, New South Wales, Australia; ANIC worker, Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1954. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 33: 1-11 [4]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

General References

Ward, P.S. 1980. Genetic variation and population differentiation in the Rhytidoponera impressa group, a species complex of ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Evolution 34: 1060-1076 (genetic variation)

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