Leptomyrmex varians quadricolor

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Leptomyrmex varians quadricolor Wheeler, 1934 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex rufipes Emery, 1895

Leptomyrmex varians subsp. quadricolor Wheeler, 1934c: 104 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, McIlwraith (“McIlthwaite”) Range, Lankelly Creek, 1931-32, (Harvard Expd.) (P.J. Darlington). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MVMA, USNM. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 120, cites 23 worker syntypes (2 BMNH, 16 MCZC, 2 MVMA, 3 USNM).

Subspecies of Leptomyrmex varians: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 105; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 120; Bolton, 1995b: 235.
Junior synonym of Leptomyrmex rufipes: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 50

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
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. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118. PDF

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