Current View: All Antweb
Change View
Cite this page

Citing AntWeb

X

To cite this page, please use the following:

· For print: . Accessed

· For web:


Genus: Papyrius   Shattuck, 1992 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

2 species, 3 subspecies

Papyrius Shattuck, 1992a PDF: 17. Type-species: Iridomyrmex nitida, by original designation. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Papyius in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c PDF: 134; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 90.
Papyrius in Dolichoderinae, Iridomyrmecini, Iridomyrmecina: Dubovikoff, 2005 PDF: 92.
Papyrius in Dolichoderinae, Leptomyrmecini: Ward, Brady, et al. 2010: 362.
Genus Papyrius references
Shattuck, 1992c PDF: 134 (diagnosis, review of genus); Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 134 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995b: 311 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 79 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 58 (south-western Australia species key).

Taxon Page Images:



Papyrius sp. worker ants tending to hemipteran nymphs inside a protective shed the ants have built out of plant fibers. Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Australasia bioregion.

Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Indonesia, South-Eastern Asia
Oceania Region: Melanesia


See something amiss? Send us an email.
Enlarge Map