Doleromyrma rottnestensis

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Doleromyrma rottnestensis (Wheeler, 1934) valid

Tapinoma (Micromyrma) rottnestense Wheeler, 1934d: 150 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., Lady Edeline Beach, 23.x.1931, (Harvard Expd.) (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: MCZC, WAMP. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 152, cites 4 worker syntypes (2 MCZC, 2 WAMP).

Combination in Doleromyrma: Heterick, 2009: 45.
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 106; Taylor, 1987a: 77; Shattuck, 1994: 152; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Heterick, 2009: 44.

Obsolete combinations

Tapinoma rottnestense

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
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.
Wheeler, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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