Myrmecia excavata

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Myrmecia excavata (Clark, 1951) junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia froggatti Forel, 1910

Promyrmecia excavata Clark, 1951: 137, figs. 105, 106 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bundarra (T. Greaves). Type-depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: paratype workers, paratype queens (numbers not stated). Paratype-locality: same as for holotype.

Combination in Myrmecia: Brown, 1953j: 18
Status as species: Brown, 1953j: 18; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 9; Taylor, 1987a: 43; Ogata, 1991a: 356.
Junior synonym of Myrmecia froggatti: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1643; Bolton, 1995b: 271.

Obsolete combinations

Promyrmecia excavata

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953j. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111:1-35. 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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