Species Rhytidoponera tasmaniensis Emery, 1898

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhytidoponera metallica tasmaniensis Emery, C. 1898. Descrizioni di formiche nuove Malesi e Australiane. Note sinonimiche. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna ns 2: 231-245 [232].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCG worker, Tasmania, Australia; ANIC worker, Tasmania, Australia.
• Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) metallicum cristulatum 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 [59].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W, Australia; ANIC W, 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 [205]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes