Species Rhytidoponera croesus Emery, 1901

Museums

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• Rhytidoponera croesus Emery, C. 1901. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 45: 32-54 [50].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCG worker, New South Wales; ANIC worker, New South Wales, Australia.
• Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) fastuosa Santschi, F. 1916. Deux nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1916: 174-175 [174].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BNHM worker, queen, male, Australia.
• Chalcoponera victoriae andrei Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, J.W. 1925. The ants of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 28: 47-73 pls 1-2 [21 Sept. 1925] [59].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ worker, Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Brown, W.L. jr 1954. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 33: 1-11.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.L. jr 1954. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 33: 1-11 [10]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, noctidiurnal, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes