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1 Dominant Dolichoderinae 
Iridomyrmex 
sub-total 
2 Associated Subordinate Camponotini 
Camponotus 
Polyrhachis 
sub-total 
3a Hot Climate Specialists 
Meranoplus 
Monomorium (“Chelaner ”) 
Podomyrma 
Melophorus 
sub-total 
3b Cold Climate Specialists 
Epopostruma 
Mesostruma 
Monomorium (“Chelaner") 
Podomyrma 
Myrm ecorhynch us 
Notoncus 
sub-total 
4a Cryptic Species 
Hypoponera 
Solenopsis 
sub-total 
4b Sub-cryptic Species 
Iridomyrmex ‘‘ darwinianus” 
I. “glaber" 
Tapinoma 
Paratrechina “minutula" 
Stigmacros 
sub-total 
5 Opportunists 
Rhytidoponera 
sub-total 
6 Generalised Myrmicinae 
Crematogaster 
Monomorium 
Pheidole 
sub-total 
7 Large, Solitary Foragers 
Myrmecia 
Trachymesopus 
sub-total 
Total 
Long Forest 
Wyperfeld 
W Prom 
5(31) 
13(35) 
8(18) 
5(31) 
15 (35) 
8(18) 
12(4) 
29 (2) 
3(9) 
1 (-) 
5 (—) 
2 (—) 
13(4) 
34 (2) 
5(9) 
10 (2) 
3(1) 
0 
2 (—) 
4 (—) 
0 
1 (-) 
1 (-) 
0 
5 (-) 
13(8) 
0 
18(3) 
22 (9) 
0 
1 (—) 
2 (—) 
0 
1 (-) 
l(-) 
0 
1 (-) 
0 
4(4) 
1 (—) 
2 (—) 
l(-) 
1 (-) 
0 
0 
3 (8) 
3 (—) 
1 (10) 
8 (8) 
15 (—) 
9(14) 
1 (-) 
0 
l(-) 
2 (1) 
1 (-) 
1(14) 
3(1) 
4 (—) 
3 04) 
2(3) 
1 (9) 
0 
1 (1) 
2 (—) 
0 
1 (-) 
0 
l(-) 
1 (7) 
1 (-) 
l(-) 
2 (2) 
13(2) 
3H 
7(13) 
17(11) 
6(5) 
1 (1) 
0 
2(27) 
1 (1) 
5 (—) 
3(37) 
1 (1) 
6(3) 
l(-) 
8(25) 
8(35) 
1 (-) 
5 (13) 
6(4) 
4(1) 
14(39) 
22 (42) 
6(1) 
2 (—) 
4 ( — ) 
5(2) 
1 (-) 
0 
0 
8 ( — ) 
4 ( — ) 
6(2) 
77 (100) 
138 (100) 
47(100) 
Table 2. Ant community organisation at Long Forest mallee compared with that at Wyperfeld (combined heath 
and mallee plots, data from Andersen 1983, Andersen & Yen 1985) and Wilsons Promontory (data from 
woodland site in Andersen 1986a). Taxa are classified into functional groups according to their habitat 
requirements and competitive interactions (see text). Data are numbers of species per taxon and, in brackets, 
their percentage abundance in pitfall traps (dashes indicate less than 1 %). 
