Species Notoncus gilberti Forel, 1895

Museums

Regional Maps

• Notoncus gilberti Forel, A. 1895. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie, récoltée à The Ridge, Mackay, Queensland par M. Gilbert Turner. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 39: 417-428 [418].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W,Q, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.
• Notoncus gilberti gracilior Forel, A. 1907. Formicidae. pp. 263–310 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 1. [299].

  Type data:

   Holotype probably destroyed in ZMH in WW II, Fremantle, WA.
• Notoncus politus Viehmeyer, H. 1925. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 25-39 [38].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB *W, Liverpool, NSW; ANIC W, Liverpool, NSW.
• Notoncus gilberti annectens 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] [154].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W, Enoggera, QLD.

  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.

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 [490]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes