Myrmecia opaca

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Myrmecia opaca (Clark, 1943) junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia occidentalis (Clark, 1943)

Promyrmecia opaca Clark, 1943: 123, pl. 14, figs. 46, 47 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Tammin (J. Clark), Western Australia, Eradu (J. Clark), Western Australia, Dowerin (L.J. Newman). Primary type depository: MVMA. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1008289.

Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 13
Status as species: Clark, 1951: 224 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 13; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata, 1991a: 361.
Junior synonym of Myrmecia occidentalis: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1663; Bolton, 1995b: 272.

Obsolete combinations

Promyrmecia opaca

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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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