Species Froggattella kirbii (Lowne, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acantholepis kirbii Lowne, B.T. 1865. Contributions to the natural history of Australian ants. The Entomologist 2: 331-336 [333].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (probable) *W, Sidney (=Sydney), NSW.
• Dolichoderus kirbyi Dalla Torre, C.G. de 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Lipsiae : G. Engelmann 289 pp. [159] [invalid emendation of Acantholepis kirbii Lowne, 1865].
• Froggattella kirbyi bispinosa Forel, A. 1902. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10: 405-548 [460].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Sydney and Oatley, NSW; ANIC W, Sydney and Oatley, NSW.
• Froggattella kirbyi ianthina Wheeler, W.M. 1936. The Australian ant genus Froggattella. American Museum Novitates 842: 1-11 [13 Apr. 1936] [8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, near Brisbane, QLD.
• Froggattella kirbyi laticeps Wheeler, W.M. 1936. The Australian ant genus Froggattella. American Museum Novitates 842: 1-11 [13 Apr. 1936] [10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Lucindale, SA.
• Froggattella kirbyi lutescens Wheeler, W.M. 1936. The Australian ant genus Froggattella. American Museum Novitates 842: 1-11 [13 Apr. 1936] [9].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, near Sydney, NSW.
• Froggattella kirbyi nigripes Wheeler, W.M. 1936. The Australian ant genus Froggattella. American Museum Novitates 842: 1-11 [13 Apr. 1936] [8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Coen, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shattuck, S.O. 1996. The Australian ant genus Froggattella Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revisisted. Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 43-47 [45]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes