Species Myopias tasmaniensis Wheeler, 1923

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Regional Maps

• Myopias tasmaniensis Wheeler, W.M. 1923. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Cambridge) 30: 175-192 [177].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Hobart, TAS.
• Trapeziopelta diadela Clark, J. 1934. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 8: 48-73 [54 pl. 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV *W,Q, Turton's Track, Beech Forest, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1953. An Australian Trapeziopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 60: 51

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes