Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 3 valid subspecies
Hypoclinea glabra Mayr, 1862 PDF: 705 (w.m.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Sydney (Novara Expd.). Primary type depositories: BMNH, NHMW. Type notes:
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 132, cites a holotype worker but from the original description more than 1 worker was apparently present, and at least 1 male.
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Status as species:
Roger, 1863b PDF: 14;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 423;
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 61 (redescription);
Mayr, 1870b PDF: 958 (in key);
Mayr, 1876 PDF: 79 (in key);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 169;
Forel, 1895f PDF: 468;
André, 1896d PDF: 259 (in key);
Emery, 1900: 694;
Forel, 1902j PDF: 472;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 299;
Wheeler, 1909d PDF: 336, 341;
Yano, 1910a PDF: 421;
Forel, 1912a PDF: 70;
Emery, 1913a PDF: 24;
Forel, 1913g PDF: 197;
Emery, 1914f PDF: 430;
Forel, 1915b PDF: 79;
Santschi, 1925f PDF: 88;
Karavaiev, 1926d PDF: 437;
Wheeler, 1927i PDF: 149;
Wheeler, 1928c PDF: 30;
Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 62;
Wheeler, 1930k PDF: 72;
Wheeler, 1935g: 35;
Teranishi, 1940: 59;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 189;
Brown, 1958h PDF: 40;
Baltazar, 1966 PDF: 263;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b PDF: 103;
Azuma, 1977a PDF: 116;
Smith, 1979: 1418;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 199;
Taylor & Brown, 1985: 99;
Taylor, 1987a PDF: 32, 34;
Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 99;
Wu & Wang, 1992c PDF: 1310;
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 132;
Bolton, 1995b: 293;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 124;
Tang et al., 1995: 90;
Kim & Kim, 1999 PDF: 18;
Deyrup et al., 2000: 300;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 163;
Zhang & Zheng, 2002 PDF: 218;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 45;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 85;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 60;
Don, 2007: 166;
Terayama, 2009 PDF: 198;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 25;
Sarnat et al., 2013 PDF: 69;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 19;
Deyrup, 2017: 174;
Dias et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF: 18;
Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF: 16;
Wang et al., 2022 10.20362/am.015006 PDF: 25.
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Photo by Philip Herbst, 3 April 2016; specimen from 6 Rooikrantz Rd Zandvlei, Cape Town, South Africa
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Reunion,
South Africa Americas: United States Asia: Borneo,
China,
India,
Japan,
Philippines,
South Korea,
Sri Lanka Oceania: Australia,
Hawaii,
New Caledonia,
New Zealand,
Norfolk Island,
Solomon Islands Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy,
Nearctic,
Oceania,
Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Australasia, Indomalaya bioregions
Distribution Notes:
North Island and Nelson
Biology:
various habitats
Notes:
first record in NZ; 1927 (R. Harris pers. comm.)
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in urban garden, 6 times found in mountain forest/garden, 2 times found in Garden, 1 times found in Kaimuki residence, 3 times found in Port of entry, 1 times found in garden flower tubs, 1 times found in Low 1/2 wet forest, 1 times found in base of dried palmetto frond, 1 times found in In dead branch by lake, 1 times found in Remnant native veg. on road verge, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 6 times under stone, 1 times in kitchen, 2 times From marri (E. calophylla), 1 times plant tub, 1 times in soil, 2 times tree-trunk, 2 times On tree-trunk, 1 times On the trail to Mafate's edge, 1 times on Eriobotrya japonica, 1 times nest in hollow pineapple stem, 1 times from nest in dessicated pineapple, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 6 times Pitfall, 3 times pooter, 4 times Pyrethrum knockdown, 2 times By hand, 1 times at honey bait, 1 times ex root mat, 2 times general collecting, 2 times Pitfall 138, 1 times Aspiration, 1 times intercept trap 2, 1 times Pitfall 170, ...
Elevations: collected from 3 - 1585 meters, 926 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1955-12-06 00:00:00.0 and 2016-11-14 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: paratype of Iridomyrmex glaber nigrogaster: focol2839; syntype of Hypoclinea glabra: casent0915587; syntype of Iridomyrmex itoi: casent0909545
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