Species Melophorus aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Formica aeneovirens Lowne, B.T. 1865. Contributions to the natural history of Australian ants. The Entomologist 2: 275-280 [276].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (probable) *W, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Melophorus insularis Wheeler, W.M. 1934. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 137- 163 [5 Oct. 1934] [151].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, White Hill and City of York Bay, Rottnest Is., WA.
• Myrmecocystus iridescens Emery, C. 1887. Cataloge delle Formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova, Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 5: 427-473 pls 1-2 [247].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG *W, Mt. Victoria, NSW.
• Melophorus iridescens fraudatrix 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] [87].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH W, Healesville, VIC
  Comment: other syntypes may exist.
• Melophorus iridescens froggatti Forel, A. 1902. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10: 405-548 [487].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W,Q, Sydney, NSW; ANIC W, Sydney, NSW.
• Melophorus constans Santschi, F. 1928. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56: 465-483 [30 Aug. 1928] [475].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BNHM worker and queen, Idatlle Glen, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Heterick, B.E., Castalanelli, M. & Shattuck, S.O. 2017. Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 700: 1–420 [75]

Generic Combinations

• Melophorus aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865). —
  Forel, A. 1902. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10: 405-548 [488]
• Cataglyphis aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865). —
  Mayr, G.L. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 5: 56-115 [78]

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: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Granivore, noctidiurnal, omnivore, open forest, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

Heterick, B.E., Castalanelli, M. & Shattuck, S.O. 2017. Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 700: 1–420 (revised diagnosis and description)

History of changes