Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Archiebold John McArthur

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Archie J. McArthur (contact author) & Dr. Remko Leys, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000,
Australia. E-mail: archie.mcarthur@samuseum.sa.gov.au

Archie has concentrated on the taxonomy of the ant genus Camponotus. He has mounted and classified ants from over 5000 localities in Australia resulting in the collection of Camponotus in the South Australian Museum being the most significant in Australia and has collected ants from most Australian habitats.

Archie has constructed keys for the identification of Camponotus ants in Australia and has published on the importance of Camponotus ants in helping restore vegetation on disturbed sites. He has studied the similarity of some Australian and African ants. He helped discover new populations of the dinosaur ant Nothomyrmecia macrops along the Eyre Highway, previous only known from Poochera in Eyre Peninsula.

ANT TAXONOMY

 

PUBLICATIONS

McArthur, A. J. 1996. [Untitled. New species of Camponotus attributed to McArthur.] Pp. 27-34 in: McArthur, A. J., Adams, M. A morphological and molecular revision of the Camponotus nigriceps group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia. Invertebr. Taxon. 10:1-46.

McArthur, A. J.; Adams, M. 1996. A morphological and molecular revision of the Camponotus nigriceps group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia. Invertebr. Taxon. 10: 1-46

McArthur, AJ. 2010. A guide to Camponotus ants of South Australia: 121 pp. South Australian Museum.

McArthur, A.J. 2003. New species of Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 127(1): 5-14

McArthur, A. J. 2007. A key to Camponotus Mayr of Australia. Pages 290-351 in Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher and P. S. Ward. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E.O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80, .

McArthur, A. J. 2009. New species, new status and new synonymy for Camponotus from Australia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 12: 273-286.

McArthur, A. J.; Adams, M.; Shattuck, S. O. 1998 [1997]. A morphological and molecular review of Camponotus terebrans (Lowne) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 45: 579-598

McArthur, A. J. and R. Leys. 2006. A morphological and molecular study of some species in the Camponotus maculatus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia and Africa, with a description of a new Australian species. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 99-110.

McArthur, A.J. ; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 125: 25-43

Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 1995. Generic placements of Australian ants described by W. F. Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 34: 121-123

Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus wiederkehri and perjurus species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 126: 63-90

REFERENCE

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton's Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.