Species Orectognathus antennatus Smith, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Orectognathus antennatus Smith, F. 1854. Monograph of the genus Cryptocerus, belonging to the group Cryptoceridae-Family Myrmicidae - Division Hymenoptera Heterogyna. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 7: 213-228 pls 19-21 [228].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, New Zealand.
• Orectognathus antennatus septentrionalis Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Wollongbar, Richmond River, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1953. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Orectognathus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13: 84-104 [14 Dec. 1953] [99]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes