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Leptomyrmex rufipes Emery, 1895 valid

Leptomyrmex varians var. rufipes Emery, 1895h: 352 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Lucky & Ward, 2010: 50). Primary type locality: neotype Australia: Queensland, Brisbane, Mt Coot-tha (A. Lucky). Primary type depository: ANIC. Type notes: Original type data: Australia: Queensland, Brisbane (G. Podenzana), and Queensland, Laidley (“Laidely”) (G. Podenzana); depository unknown, material apparently lost, not found in MHNG, MSNG (Lucky & Ward, 2010: 50).

Neotype designation: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 50.
Lucky & Ward, 2010: 52 (eq.m.)
Subspecies of Leptomyrmex varians: Forel, 1902j: 473; Wheeler, 1908g: 389; Emery, 1913a: 17; Emery, 1914a: 180; Forel, 1915b: 83; Wheeler, 1915e: 279 (redescription); Wheeler, 1934c: 104; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 105; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 121; Bolton, 1995b: 235.
Status as species: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 50 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex varians quadricolor: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 50

Junior synonyms

Leptomyrmex varians quadricolor Wheeler, 1934

Obsolete combinations

Leptomyrmex varians rufipes

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1895h. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:345-358. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Emery, C. 1914a. Formiche d'Australia e di Samoa raccolte dal Prof. Silvestri nel 1913. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:179-186. PDF
Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
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. 1908g. Honey ants, with a revision of the American Myrmecocysti. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:345-397. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1915e. The Australian honey-ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:255-286. PDF
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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