Species Rhytidoponera aurata (Roger, 1861)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ponera (Ectatomma) aurata Roger, J. 1861. Myrmicologische Nachlese. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5: 163-174 [169].

  Type data:

   Holotype (whereabouts unknown), Australia.
• Rhytidoponera flava Crawley, W.C. 1915. Ants from north and south-west Australia (G.F. Hill, Rowland Turner) and Christmas Island, Straits Settlements. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 232-239 [232].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH male, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 9: 14-89 pls 3-6 [27]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

History of changes