Melophorus insularis

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

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Melophorus insularis Wheeler, 1934 junior synonym of current valid taxon Melophorus aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865)

Melophorus insularis Wheeler, 1934d: 151 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “several”). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., White Hill, 23.x.1931, (Harvard Expd.) (P.J. Darlington & W.M. Wheeler), 3 workers Western Australia, Rottnest I., City of York Bay, 13.xii.1932 (L. Glauert). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, WAMP.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 123; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250; Heterick, 2009: 93.
Junior synonym of Melophorus aeneovirens: Heterick et al., 2017: 75.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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.
Wheeler, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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