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Extant: 5 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
India, Australia, China, Philippines, Indonesia
Scientific Name | Status | Publication | Pages | ModsID | GoogleMaps |
Oecophylla smaragdina | Forel, A., 1894, Les formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IV. Adjonction aux genres Camponotus, Mayr., et Polyrhachis, Shuck., Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 8, pp. 396-420: 400, (download) | 400 | 3951 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 20, (download) | 20 | 3994 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Forel, A., 1886, Études myrmécologiques en 1886., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 30, pp. 131-215: 69-70, (download) | 69-70 | 3923 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Emery, C., 1893, Voyage de M. E. Simon à l'île de Ceylan (janvier - février 1892). 3 e Mémoire. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62, pp. 239-258: 12, (download) | 12 | 3767 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Mayr, G., 1893, Formiciden von Herrn Dr. Fr. Stuhlmann in Ost-Afrika gesammelt., Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 10, pp. 193-201: 5, (download) | 5 | 4386 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 695, (download) | 695 | 4445 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Forel, A., 1907, Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika., Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika (Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903 - 1905 mitteln der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung ausgeführt von Professor Dr. Alfred, pp. 75-92: 88, (download) | 88 | 8171 | ||
Oecophylla smaragdina | Forel, A., 1909, Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 53, pp. 51-73: 55, (download) | 55 | 4018 |
Found most commonly in these habitats: 56 times found in Rainforest, 13 times found in Eucalyptus woodland, 11 times found in Riparian woodland, 5 times found in Rainforest edge, 5 times found in dry sclerophyll, 3 times found in Coastal scrub forest, 3 times found in urban parkland, 2 times found in Wet sclerophyll, 2 times found in Savanna, 2 times found in sclerophyll woods, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 35 times foraging on low vegetation, 21 times Malaise trap, 18 times flight intercept trap, 14 times foraging on tree, 8 times Sieved litter, 6 times silk nest in living leaves, 5 times Foraging column on tree, 1 times on Rhizophora apiculata, 3 times on low vegetation, 2 times Litter, 3 times ground strays, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 1 times wild caught, 13 times Berlesate, 12 times Flight intercept trap, 9 times direct collection, 6 times Pyrethrum knockdown, 5 times Sweeping, 4 times Hand collection, 3 times Hand, 3 times Pitfall traps, 3 times by hand, 3 times Malaise trap, ...
Elevations: collected from 1 - 1560 meters, 170 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1920-08-31 and 2018-02-11
Type specimens: