Genus Opisthopsis Emery, 1893

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• Opisthopsis Emery, C. 1893. In Dalla Torre, C.G. de (1893). Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Lipsiae : G. Engelmann 7 289 pp. [219] [nom. nov. for Myrmecopsis F. Smith, 1865].
• Myrmecopsis Smith, F. 1865. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr A.R. Wallace. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 8: 61-94 pl. 4 [13 Jan. 1865] [68 pl. 4] [Myrmecopsis Newman, 1850 described with subgeneric rank in Formica Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Formica (Myrmecopsis) respiciens F. Smith, 1865 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1973. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. pp. 161–185 in Meggers, B.J., Ayensu, E.S. & Duckworth, W.D. (eds) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea and east Melanesia in Australian Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Mar-2015		21-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		25-May-2010	MODIFIED