Species Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myrmica bicarinata Nylander, W. 1846. Additamentum adnotationum in monographiam formicarum borealium Europae. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 2: 1041-1062 [1061].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) lost, California, USA.

  Secondary source:

   Bolton, B. 1977. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 36: 67-151 [29 Sept. 1977].

 

Generic Combinations

• Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846). —
  Mayr, G.L. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: Abhand. 649-776 pl. 19 [740]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from overseas into many areas of eastern QLD, NSW, SW WA and NT.

Introduced from SE Asia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, desert, noctidiurnal, open forest, peridomestic, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	FORMICIDAE Latreille, 1809	29-Nov-2018	MODIFIED
23-Mar-2015	VESPOIDEA	18-Mar-2015	MODIFIED
23-Mar-2015	FORMICIDAE	10-Mar-2015	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		14-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
		25-May-2010	MODIFIED