Species Epopostruma quadrispinosa (Forel, 1895)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strumigenys (Epopostruma) quadrispinosa Forel, A. 1895. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie, récoltée à The Ridge, Mackay, Queensland par M. Gilbert Turner. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 39: 417-428 [422].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH W, Mackay, QLD.
• Epopostruma quadrispinosa ferruginea Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH Q, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Taylor, R.W. 1991. Nomenclature and ditribution of some Australasian ants of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 599-614 [602]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes