Species Ooceraea australis Forel, 1900

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• Syscia australis Forel, A. 1900. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltées par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 54-77 [68] [introduced as autralis but used by the original author in 1902 as australis; non Lioponera longitarsus australis Forel, 1895 =Lioponera longitarsus Mayr, 1878 = Cerapachys longitarsus (Mayr, 1878)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.
• Syscia australis edentata Forel, A. 1900. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltées par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 54-77 [69] [introduced as autralis but used by the original author in 1902 as australis)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Mackay, QLD; ANIC W, Mackay, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5: 1-116
• Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280 [198]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, NSW, ACT, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nests in soil

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	FORMICIDAE	19-Jan-2017	ADDED