Species Mesoponera australis (Forel, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ponera melanaria australis Forel, A. 1900. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltées par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 54-77 [62].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Mesoponera australis (Forel, 1900). —
  Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of Ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817(1): 1-242 [110]
• Pachycondyla australis (Forel, 1900).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

General References

Wilson, E.O. 1958. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. III. Rhytidoponera in Western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 119: 301-371 (taxonomy, raised to species)

History of changes