Species Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Formica smaragdina Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [Appendix, 828].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts uncertain, India.
• Formica virescens Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [392].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH W, Australia (as New Holland).
• Formica viridis Kirby, W. 1818. XXVIII. A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 454-482 pls XXI-XXIII [478].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH *W, northern Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mayr, G.L. 1872. Formicidae Borneenses collectae a J. Doria et O. Beccari in territorio Sarawak annis 1865–1867. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2: 133-155 [143]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, noctidiurnal, omnivore, open forest, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Nestt. arboreal.

History of changes