Notes on the Anatomy of Rhytidoponera Convexa Mayr (“Violacea” Forel) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

作者：R. M. Whelden · 发表于：Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 年份：1957 · DOI：10.1093/aesa/50.3.271 · 被引用次数：18 · 研究领域：Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior、Plant and animal studies、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

The ponerine ant genus Rhytidoponera is a very interesting one in a number of respects. It comprises a large series of described forms (and probably a number as yet undescribed) primarily of Australian and Papuasian habitat, but including species distributed as far to the east as New Caledonia and westward to the southern Philippines. Since the first description of the genus by Mayr (1862) its close affinities with the New World Ectatommini have been recognized—indeed Mayr treated the group as a subgenus of Ectatomma. Like the members of that genus in the New World, Rhytidoponera is warm-temperate to tropical in its distribution, but within these limitations it occupies an exceedingly wide range of environments. Arboreal species are to be found nesting in wet masses of epiphytic ferns a hundred feet from the ground in the rain forests of northern Queensland, while other species, superficially not dissimilar, are at home in the deserts of Central Australia.