Species Notoncus ectatommoides (Forel, 1892)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Camponotus ectatommoides Forel, A. 1892. Die Ameisen Neu-Seelands. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft / Bulletin of the Société Entomologique Suisse 8: 331-343 [333].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG (probable) *Q, probably (South) Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Brown, W.L. jr 1955. A revision of the Australian ant genus Notoncus Emery, with notes on the other genera of Melophorini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 113: 469-494 [480].
• Notoncus foreli André, E. 1896. Fourmis nouvelles d'Asie et d'Australie. Revue Française d'Entomologie 15: 251-265 [256].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP W, WA.
• Notoncus foreli subdentata Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [68].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Forset Reefs, NSW; ANIC W, Forset Reefs, NSW.
• Notoncus foreli dentata Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [68].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Gembrook, VIC; ANIC W, Gembrook, VIC.
• Notoncus foreli acuminata Viehmeyer, H. 1925. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 25-39 [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB *W, probably Liverpool or Trial Bay, NSW.
• Notoncus rodwayi Donisthorpe, H. 1941. Descriptions of new ants (Hym. Formicidae) from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 8: 199-210 [206].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH *Q, Nowra, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1955. A revision of the Australian ant genus Notoncus Emery, with notes on the other genera of Melophorini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 113: 469-494 [485]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes