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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:QVM:12:6480

Preserved specimen of Myrmecia desertorum Wheeler, 1915 | Bull Ant recorded on 1986-08-16
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queen Victoria Museum Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "QVMAG"
Collection Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Invertebrates
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number QVM:12:6480
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations wet
Identified by Lowery, B.B.  
Individual count 4
License CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1986-08-16
Supplied as year:1986.0  month:8.0  day:16.0 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Myrmecia desertorum
Supplied scientific name "Myrmecia lutea"
Identified to rank species
Common name Bull Ant
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Hymenoptera
Family Formicidae
Genus Myrmecia
Species Myrmecia desertorum
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Wheeler, 1915
Supplied as Crawley, 1922
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Locality Cervantes
Habitat
Supplied as "Found in beach scrub."
Latitude -30.48332
Supplied as: "-30.48332"
Longitude 115.06666
Supplied as: "115.06666"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Jurien Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Jurien Bay
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Agricultural
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Agricultural Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Agricultural Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central West Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF DANDARAGAN

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 592.1667 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 312.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 29.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 87.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 33.166668 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 29.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 337.5 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 36.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 26.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 19.183334 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.833334 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.483334 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 14.783334 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 11.45 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 23.433332 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.2583333
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.316666 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 24.016666 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 15.3 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 54.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.44
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99