Species Podomyrma laevifrons Smith, 1859

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podomyrma laevifrons Smith, F. 1859. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 3: 132-178 [Date published 1 Feb. 1859] [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown W, Aru Island, Indonesia.
• Podomyrma gracilis Emery, C. 1887. Cataloge delle Formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova, Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 5: 427-473 pls 1-2 [460].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ?MCG, Ramoi, New Guinea.
• Podomyrma gracilis nugenti Forel, A. 1901. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma-, und Echinopla-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18: 45-82 [54].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Cairns, QLD; ANIC W, Cairns, QLD.
• Podomyrma striata Smith, F. 1859. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 3: 132-178 [Date published 1 Feb. 1859] [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, Aru, Indonesia.
• Podomyrma laeviceps Mayr, G.L. 1867. Adnotationes in Monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10: 33-117 [108].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown W, Waigeo, NG.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Emery, C. 1922. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidae Subfam. Myrmicinae. In Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 174C pp. 207–397. [238]
• Taylor, R.W. 1999. Nomenclatural changes in the Australian ant genus Podomyrma Fredrick Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 34: 173-174 [174]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest arboreal.

History of changes