Leptomyrmex wiburdi

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Leptomyrmex wiburdi Wheeler, 1915 valid

Leptomyrmex wiburdi Wheeler, 1915e: 272, fig. 7 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Blue Mts, Jenolan Caves (J.C. Wiburd). Primary type depositories: LACM, MCZC, MVMA, USNM. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 121, cites 20 worker syntypes.

Wheeler, 1934c: 99 (m.); Lucky & Ward, 2010: 61 (eq.)
Status as species: Wheeler, 1934c: 99; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 106; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 121; Bolton, 1995b: 235; Lucky & Ward, 2010: 60 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex wiburdi pictus: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 60

Junior synonyms

Leptomyrmex wiburdi pictus Wheeler, 1915

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. 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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