Myrmecia dichospila

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Myrmecia dichospila Clark, 1938 valid

Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) dichospila Clark, 1938: 359, fig. 2 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous workers”), 1 syntype queen, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: workers, queen Australia: South Australia, Reevesby I., 1936 (J. Clark), male South Australia, Reevesby I., i.(1936?) (Croll). Primary type depository: MVMA. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1008209.

Combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 108.
Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8.
Status as species: Clark, 1943: 108 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 198 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8; Taylor, 1987a: 42; Ogata, 1991a: 362; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 271.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 13:83-149. PDF
Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Systematic Entomology 16:353-381. PDF
Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673. 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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