Species Rhytidoponera clarki Donisthorpe, 1943

Museums

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• Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) clarki Donisthorpe, H. 1943. Myrmecological gleanings. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 12: 115-116 [115] [nom. nov. for Chalcoponera hilli Clark, 1941].
• Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) metallicum obscurum 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 [60] [non Ectatomma (Holcoponera) obscurum Emery, 1869 = Holcoponera obscura (Emery, 1896)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH worker, queen, male, Mackay, Queensland, Australia; ANIC worker, Mackay, Queensland, Australia.
• Chalcoponera hilli Clark, J. 1941. Australian Formicidae. Notes and new species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 12: 71-94 [85 pl. 13] [non Rhytidoponera hilli Crawley, 1915].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV worker, Palm Island, Queensland, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 118: 173-362 [203]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes