Leptomyrmex varians angusticeps

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Leptomyrmex varians angusticeps Santschi, 1929 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex varians Emery, 1895

Leptomyrmex varians st. angusticeps Santschi, 1929f: 93, fig. 3 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (not males; number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Byfield (C. Barrett). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 120, cites 3 worker syntypes. 2) Lucky & Ward, 2010: 58, point out that Santschi’s use of a male symbol in the original description was a typographical error.

Subspecies of Leptomyrmex varians: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 105; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 120; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
Junior synonym of Leptomyrmex varians: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 58

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. PDF
Santschi, F. 1929f. Mélange myrmécologique. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 46:84-93. 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.

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