Species Monomorium fieldi Forel, 1910
- Monomorium (Martia) fieldi Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [30].
Type data:
Syntype(s) GMNH W,M, Tennant Creek, NT; ANIC W, Tennant Creek, NT. - Monomorium (Mitara) donisthorpei Crawley, W.C. 1915. Ants from north and central Australia, collected by G.F. Hill. Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 130-136 [134].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH *W, Darwin, NT. - Monomorium (Mitara) laeve nigrius 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] [74].
Type data:
Syntype(s) GMNH W,Q, Mt. Tambourine (=Tamborine Mt.), Cedar Creek and Alice River, QLD; ANIC W, Mt. Tambourine (=Tamborine Mt.), Cedar Creek and Alice River, QLD
Comment: other syntypes may exist. - Monomorium (Mitara) laeve fraterculus Santschi, F. 1919. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 52: 325-350 [328].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BNHM W, Townsville, QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Heterick, B.E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 353-459 [401]
Introduction
After COI barcoding specimens from the monsoonal region of Australia, Andersen et al. (2022) recognised 97 to 300 undescribed species in the Monomorium nigrius Forel Group. This indicates that the species group is in need of taxonomic revision.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Barrow Island; "Australia, Lord Howe Is., New Zealand, Norfolk Island" (Jennings & Austin 2015).
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Desert, noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in ground layer.
General References
Andersen, A., Brassard, F., & Hoffmann, B. 2022. Unrecognized Ant Megadiversity in Monsoonal Australia: Diversity and Its Distribution in the Hyperdiverse Monomorium nigrius Forel Group. Diversity 14: 1-16
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | FORMICIDAE Latreille, 1809 | 12-Sep-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 23-Mar-2015 | VESPOIDEA | 18-Mar-2015 | MODIFIED | |
| 23-Mar-2015 | FORMICIDAE | 28-Mar-2014 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
| 07-Aug-2012 | 25-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Aug-2012 | 14-Feb-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 25-May-2010 | MODIFIED |