Myrmecia pulchra

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

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Myrmecia pulchra Clark, 1929 valid

Myrmecia pulchra Clark, 1929b: 119, pl. 1, fig. 3 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “a small colony”). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, East Gippsland, Cann River, near the bridge, 26.xi.-8.xii.1928 (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1008210.

Clark, 1951: 83 (subapterous q.).
Status as species: Clark, 1951: 82 (redescription); Brown, 1953j: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata, 1991a: 358; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1635 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 273.
Senior synonym of Myrmecia crassinoda: Brown, 1953j: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
Senior synonym of Myrmecia fallax: Brown, 1953j: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
Senior synonym of Myrmecia murina: Brown, 1953j: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Junior synonyms

Myrmecia crassinoda Clark, 1934
Myrmecia fallax Clark, 1951
Myrmecia murina Clark, 1951

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. 1929b. Results of a collecting trip to the Cann River, East Gippsland. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 46:115-123. 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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