Heteroponera brounii kirki

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Heteroponera brounii kirki (Wheeler, 1923) junior synonym of current valid taxon Heteroponera brounii (Forel, 1892)

Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera) brouni subsp. kirki Wheeler, 1923f: 184, fig. 4 (w.eq.) NEW ZEALAND. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 1 syntype ergatoid queen. Primary type locality: New Zealand: Waitakari Forest, nr Auckland, 5.ix.1914 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC, MZSP. Type notes: Original description cites colony as containing “about 100 individuals”.

Subspecies of Heteroponera brounii: Wheeler, 1935g: 10.
Junior synonym of Heteroponera brounii: Brown, 1958g: 195; Brown, 1958h: 18; Taylor, 1987a: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 212.

Obsolete combinations

Acanthoponera brounii kirki

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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1923f. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Cambridge) 30:175-192. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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