Melophorus iridescens fraudatrix

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Melophorus iridescens fraudatrix Forel, 1915 junior synonym of current valid taxon Melophorus aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865)

Melophorus iridescens var. fraudatrix Forel, 1915b: 87 (footnote) (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype media and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Healesville (H.A. Arnold). Primary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MHNG. Primary type specimens: ANTWEB1038567, ANTWEB1038568, CASENT0903261.

Subspecies of Melophorus iridescens: Emery, 1925d: 12; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 123; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250.
Junior synonym of Melophorus aeneovirens: Heterick et al., 2017: 76.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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
Heterick, B. E.; Castalanelli, M.; Shattuck, S. O. 2017. Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 700:1-420. 10.3897/zookeys.700.11784 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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