Colobostruma nancyae

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Colobostruma nancyae Brown, 1965 valid

Colobostruma nancyae Brown, 1965b: 22, figs. 1-3 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, 100 km. E of Esperance, ca 8 km. NE of (old) Thomas River Station, 28-29.i.1955 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type localities: paratype workers with same data as holotype, 1 worker Western Australia, 15 km. (reported as 25 km.) S of Mt Ragged, 31.i.1955 (Wilson & Haskins). Secondary type depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 60; Taylor, 1987a: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 146; Shattuck, 2000: 45 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 145.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1965b. Colobostruma nancyae species nov. Pilot Register of Zoology Card No. 22:1-2.
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 2000. Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma. Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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